The Life Letters

Subject: asking!
Written By A

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[clipped from the book e wrote]

"...But is that it?" asked Glenda. "Aren't we going to get any glorious descriptive passages in the story about that bit? No licking of honey-covered breasts or rippling of manly thighs? Not even a bit of a snog? Look, we've gotten this far, now there has to be a sex scene!"

"Not necessarily," said Mr Stock. "The author of this story is a computer based lifeform, and may not be aware of the significance of issues related to biology or of passion."

"Don't be daft," said Anashar, "How do you think they can upload people complete with sensual memories if there aren't sensual networks reproduced?"

"The starbase computer never had a body. It isn't a robot or even a machine. It's software. It said so," said Glenda. "How can you know about sex, if you've never had sex?"

"You didn't know about sex when you were born, but you discovered it," said Mr Stock.

"I have a body; I discovered it manually," said Glenda.

"Only after the intent," said Mr Stock, and she conceded, then said, "But I see your point. If such an intent were part of a program; to seek the experiences and the emotions of humanity through empathy, what would it learn?"

"The same thing we learn," said Conan "-That attraction and repulsion are major forces in the universe on all levels. That we forget so easily what we learned so recently as we slip back into the unconscious layers of thought behind all things."

"That sounded a bit cosmic, Conan," said Glenda.

"These are cosmic forces," confirmed Stock. "All life proceeds in recognisable patterns, and sexuality is no exception. A program would access similar emotions connected with different inputs. It wouldn't actually want to actually have physical sex."

"So why did the computer bring it up? And do we get a sex scene or not?"

"I don't know," admitted Stock.
"Well, why don't you ask me?" I said, but nobody did.

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