Ha remembered what Evrim had said to her on the night the fishing vessels tried to break through Altantsetseg’s cordon and were destroyed: “Computation was never the purpose of bringing me into being. The purpose was to create a true android. An android inside and out: a robot not only human in appearance, but human in…” Evrim hesitated. “I’m not sure what to name it. In consciousness? But they still do not agree as to whether I am truly conscious or not—though I believe I am.” Ha thought: No. You are not human in consciousness. Or in anything else. You are singular, and new.
