GalaxyRaider

Myriad Reality

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I don’t believe in throwing away something good for an uncertain perfect.

@Meta

Reasonable. Just not what I expected.

Myriad Reality

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What’s so wrong with that?

@Meta

Nothing inherently wrong with it. For such an important thing, though, I imagined you’d be a lot more concerned with permanence.

Myriad Reality

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Test subjects take a long time to farm.

@Meta

Of course. But long time doesn’t mean never. What we’re talking about is a temporary solution to your problem.

Myriad Reality

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Slowly. He won’t be able to get back to where he is.

@Meta

Why not?

Myriad Reality

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My point is that I need your help destroying Data’s research so this never happens again.

@Meta

Data could just start over again.

Myriad Reality

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I’m not her. I’m just what made her appear alive.

@Meta

That much I got.

Myriad Reality

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It’s still not something that can happen. Not here, and not in Data’s lab. Otherwise Melody would not have needed mine.

@Meta

Even if I concede this to you, what’s your point, exactly?

Myriad Reality

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More importantly, do you really want to live in a world where you can manufacture souls?

@Meta

I think what happened to you is important. I do not think your hypothetical is inherently terrible on its own, though.

Myriad Reality

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*has a concerned look after hearing everything then looks at Tempo and Rhythm with empathetic sorrow*

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@Ignacious

I mean, right?

Myriad Reality

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She was only ever an unfeeling collection of programs that hooked into my soul like a parasite. Data used me to give those ones and zeroes the appearance of a soul, but she was no more alive—
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—than either of these two are. And faced with that reality, it's no wonder it couldn't recover from that kind of error state.

@Meta

Now what in the world do you mean "no more alive than them"? Just because you all lack flesh and blood doesn't make you unalive. You're people.