De Robota

Author: Kicker

Date: September 10, 2004

by Kicker
9-10-04
Nick, really, you can drop it. If this robot is indistinguishable as you say, I've decided I will treat you both like the real thing and be done with it.
No, goddammit! I'm the only real one! I made a complete clone body for it, using a biomemetic CPU for a brain, and programmed it to simulate me in entirety, but there must be a way to prove I'm me!
Out of curiosity, if the robot looks like Nick and thinks it's Nick, how can you possibly know you aren't it?
What? Because...robots, they're like...they don't...I...
Well, maybe your smarty-smart friends at St. Johns will be able to tell you, mister metal-pants.
Fuck. I can hear them now. "You're supposed abandon received knowledge like that." Absolutism is no comfort when you might be a robot. I'd be better off watching the Twilight Zone.