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Comments

[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.