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[knowlogram]

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Comments

[eudaimonikos]

Who said anything about everyone?

[Michael doesn't tell the rest of those guys crap!]

Ugh - fine, whatever. They didn't come back in order, either, I could tell that. I wasn't planning on tricking them into killing Janet for at least a few months. Can you tell me how much time I'm missing, at least?

[knowlogram]

This is an experiment! Some things have to be controlled, no matter who my favorites might be or how many people they could've actually killed.

[This is SCIENCE torture not torture torture, jeeze.]

Aaaaaa couple centuries worth? It can be a little hard to gauge with afterlife stuff. If you survive long enough or graduate it'll all come back.

[eudaimonikos]

Huh. That's not too long...

[Not long enough to say he survived the experiment going wonky, not short enough to say he didn't. Shawn probably wasn't gonna come check in for another five hundred anyway. Maybe he pulled out of that little tailspin.

Or, you know, maybe he's flailing and dreading his next review.]

Well, fine. I'll figure it out. As long as I remember before I go back, I can make it work.

[Does he...know what else he might do, if it turns out it's too dangerous to return? Not...really. He's never had anything but his job. Still, though, he's not heading home just to get retired.]

Speaking of which, it's a bit of a shame about Hiro. He was interesting - and I never even really got to talk to him!

[knowlogram]

Hiro's- interesting, yeah. ...He was, I mean.

[Hubert actually looks sort of concerned, for a second?]

You're kind of the expert on souls and stuff here, where would you say he stood on the personhood scale?

[eudaimonikos]

[Hm. Well, Michael doesn't exactly care, but it is an interesting question.]

Seemed like a person to me. I mean, it's a little hard to say, right? Humans in my universe haven't invented anything near sentient yet. And we have Janets, which - [shrug?] - they can get shut down, if they malfunction, but I've never really seen it happen.

[knowlogram]

I mean, yeah, he STARTED as a human, at least. It's not super my business to, you know, spread around, but it was more of a Robocop sitch than a Johnny Five thing.

[eudaimonikos]

.........okay. That's weird, but okay.

[Doesn't matter now, the guy's dead!]

Well, either way, I figure a soul's more of a...byproduct of a sapient mortal existence than anything else. I'd assume even a regular robot would have one too, if it reached that point. Humans were the same way - you didn't see the early bipedal apes showing up in the afterlife.