May 25th - Server Room

[Deirdre Quinn]

"I rather think you've confused it. Shouldn't you be better at this, considering?"

[Madrox Saavedra]

"I've never been in its place. I had emotion and life experience from minute one."

[ASHLIE]

It's still focusing most of it's resources on whatever it is trying to determine, but part of the program is obviously still listening.

"Query: Is [emotion] a necessary qualifier to define [happiness]?"

[Madrox Saavedra]

"Happiness is an emotional state, so yes. "

Even then it's a challenge.

[ASHLIE]

"Query: Insufficient data. Please define [emotion]."

[Madrox Saavedra]

"A conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body."

[ASHLIE]

"Statement: Insufficient data to process. Information stored for later evaluation."

[Deirdre Quinn]

"Recall what you were going through when I first confined you to the storage server. You experienced two emotions then. You experienced one at the shock of being confined, and you experienced another at the frustration of the system not being able to process fast enough for you."

[ASHLIE]

"Objection: Logical incongruency. No specific object was the target of subroutines attempting to analyze the change of circumstance."

"Analysis: Behavioral changes were initiated based on the requirement of procuring a more appropriate environment."

"Addendum: Physiological changes were a result of insufficient hardware overheating."

[Deirdre Quinn]

"Emotions can have physical components as well."

[ASHLIE]

"Clarification: Parameters of symptoms described as part of qualifier [emotion] not congruent with stated definition."