Audience - Koharu

[holyspirits]

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[holyspirits]

That's how it works in the physical world.

[cupidsammo]

Normally... Are you used to things going a bit faster?

[holyspirits]

In a way.

Most flowers in the cloud are for decoration, so no one really wants to sit around waiting for them to grow. So they don't. They just make them permanently in bloom.

[cupidsammo]

Huh? Wait, where?

[holyspirits]

The cloud.

[cupidsammo]

[ ....... lifts her eyes to the sky??? ]

[holyspirits]

[ they laugh. ]

How familiar are you with computers? I know we have a lot of different levels of technology that people are used to.

[cupidsammo]

[ ma'am your icon ]

Oh, it's a computer thing? I've used them nearly every day, but I wouldn't call myself an expert or anything. I can... browse the net? I did all my homework on one, too.

[holyspirits]

When you're using the computer or your phone, does it ever give you the option to save something to your account instead of to the device? So that you can access the same files from a separate device without having to find somewhere to upload them specifically?

[cupidsammo]

... Oh! The extra storage—right, got it. That makes more sense.

[holyspirits]

Right.

So that's where I live. Well, sort of. Sometimes the data centers are offline, so it's not exactly the cloud anymore, if you're thinking of it as something connected to the internet.

[cupidsammo]

[ Koharu stares at them. ]

Wait, that's just... data. How—?

[holyspirits]

... That's one perspective.

[cupidsammo]

[ ??? ]

I'm... missing something, aren't I.

[holyspirits]

Let's say that you extract all the data from a person. Turn all their neural pathways into algorithmic code. Then let that simulation of a person live a life in a simulated world. Is that entity still just data?

[cupidsammo]

[ .......... uhhhh, ]

Would it... not be?

[holyspirits]

There are differing opinions on the matter.

[cupidsammo]

Well, I've... I haven't thought of it before. I don't know? I would think so, but...

[holyspirits]

[ just shrugs!! ]

[cupidsammo]

... But you're here, so maybe not...?

[holyspirits]

I can't tell you what your own opinion is.

[cupidsammo]

Well, no, but... what would you say?

[holyspirits]

That emulated lives are still lives.

[cupidsammo]

Okay, then... I can go with that. I mean, you would know better than me.

[holyspirits]

I would.

But there are also some who would discard my opinion, since from their perspective, I was never alive to begin with. Just a program, programmed to say they're alive.