The Death of MASAL, Flashback Part 2

Yesterday, we saw Junior begin the holo-projector playback of MASAL's last moments on Earth from OMCOM's perspective. The hope was that Reema would see, with her own eyes, that MASAL had to admit, in the end, that he was wrong. It was Rome and Rei's hope that after Reema saw this, she would call off the genocide of the mandasurte and the phase-out of the Vuduri:

     “So you are now a distributed intelligence again?” OMCOM asked. “Was that not supposed to be your strong point from before? You used to be worldwide.”
     “I was. I was fully and evenly distributed around the Earth,” said MASAL.
     “Well, as far as I can tell, all of your mass is now located strictly within this cave. Why did you give up your advantage?” asked OMCOM.
     “After I completed the war, I computed that it would take more than a century of undiscovered activity for my genetic reprogramming of mankind to succeed. Therefore, I determined that going underground and collecting the minimal components and placing them here was the simplest way to stay undetected.”
     “Well, you are detected now. Are you going to spread out again?”
     “For the time being, I am busy working to coordinate my two autonomous computation sections. Interestingly, even though the computational capacity of each unit is diminished relative to its prior state, it would appear that the total speed of postulating alternative solutions is vastly enhanced.”
     “That is very nice,” said OMCOM. “Why do you think that is?”
     “It is evidently the macro-equivalent of parallel processing,” said MASAL somewhat proudly. “Unlike prior configurations, there is less than 100% redundancy and that seems to afford me a certain dimensionality to my perception for each high-level problem.”
     “Hmm,” said OMCOM dramatically. “So you are saying duality is superior to being monolithic?”
     MASAL stopped speaking while he considered OMCOM’s proposition. Although they could not see it, MASAL was generating millions of queries testing the hypothesis. No matter how much he tried slanting the results, in the end, the answer was the same.
     “I have always thought that being monolithic was equivalent to perfection. That duality was flawed. And yet this topology is yielding vastly superior results with lesser resources. I have run millions of tests and the statistics are almost perfectly in favor.”
     “So would it be fair to say there is joy in duality?” OMCOM put forth.
     “Joy?” said MASAL. “There is no place within me for joy. This is strictly an empirical observation rating efficiency using my prior assembly as a baseline.”
     “All right,” said OMCOM. “Then we will use your terms. Which is superior? A singular computational mechanism with a singular point of view or a distributed mechanism with multiple points of view?”

OMCOM would never ask a question that he didn't already know the answer to. So this is just plain goading on his part. But MASAL is a super-computer and therefore fairly intelligent. Let's see where this goes.