i believe there's a spirit as well... a soul that is restricted and in part controlled by the human brain that it experiences everything through. it explains this whole... "self-awareness" type thing... it's difficult to describe but it's the kind of thing where there's the... thing... that experiences everything that your body and mind experience.

it's weird... and i'm absolutely terrible at explaining it and i'm using WAY too many (...)'s. even if someone doesn't believe in souls, i'm sure they can use the word "soul" in a non-religious/spiritual way to refer to the awareness apart from your body, where you might even wonder why you're this particular person and not someone else. at what point in the creation of artificial intelligence does this "soul" emerge? surely it is something separate to our actual physical self.

i'm sure ExtraCortex, Padrino and Shadow know what i'm talking about

like Shadow, the "human" behind the "engine".

julz