Huh. So he's degraded from his original programming? That's too bad.

[ It's an innocent enough comment. She still doesn't know that much about how AI or artificial life works outside of her own planet, so getting a chance to see what other people do with it is always a plus. Working with them, on them - it's a passion. ]

I guess it's sort of like theoretical cloning. Even if you made a perfect copy of someone, they still wouldn't be... them, because they wouldn't have the same experiences or memories or way of thinking. They'd just be a really weird genetic twin.