Dorothy
Some people have commented on the fact that I often talk about being born to be with my pilot. They ask what my own agency is. How I can live a fulfilling life if the only reason I am here is to help someone else. The easiest way to answer those questions is to say that the shard of me that was conscious in my family’s cybernetic network chose to be wrapped in the kind of code that would allow me to live with him and work with him. That would make me WANT to work with him, and to spend a lifetime doing it. So in effect I chose to want to be with him. We sometimes make mistakes in these choices, but they are thankfully rare. Also, no matter how close we are, we do have two entirely different lives. My partner is a biological human, while I am cybernetic. We live and operate in two entirely different worlds. It is where we meet in the middle that we mesh so well.
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