A programmer who knows intimately how the machines work, and a machine, who knows its own true nature.
-Every host needs a backstory, Bernard. You know that. They serve as a kind of fiction, for hosts and humans alike. It’s a story we tell ourselves, and every story needs a beginning. Your imagined suffering makes you lifelike.
-Lifelike, but not alive.
If pain only exists in the mind. So what’s the difference between my pain and yours? Between you and me?
