If you ask six different monks the question of which godly domain robot consciousness belongs to, you’ll get seven different answers.

“We don’t have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”

“And I’m saying that I think you are mistaking something learned for something instinctual.”

What do humans need?”

Mosscap considered. “Because I know that no matter what, I’m wonderful,”

thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see

“What do humans need? is an unanswerable question. That changes from person to person, minute to minute. We can’t predict our needs, beyond the base things we require to survive.

It is difficult for anyone born and raised in human infrastructure to truly internalize the fact that your view of the world is backward.

You and I—we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”