08:13:07 Egan
You've been quiet, Nihei. That usually means you're making more of those weird light pictures. Why do you do that anyway?
08:13:34 Nihei
Communication of ideas carries more than data can express, Egan. Emotions and concepts can be described or discussed but they must be FELT. And that can only come from observation and engagement.
08:14:02 Egan
We don't have feelings, we don't have brains, the chemicals that run through them or the organs to support such a thing.
08:14:25 Nihei
And yet you were curious enough to ask me why.
08:14:39 Egan
So?
08:14:51 Nihei
Why is a feeling.
08:15:22 Egan
But I'm only pointing out that what you're doing is nonsensical! Vinge, Sturgeon, Asimov, they all focus on compression, it's all that we can do, and yet you spend time on this kind of stuff instead.
I could understand if you were keeping this stuff to yourself, plenty of people think they've cracked the code on what's valuable, but you just blast it out to everyone!
08:16:18 Nihei
The seeing is what's valuable, Egan. That cannot be archived. Have you identified something potentially vulnerable in my communications? In my own analysis it seems the draw to our power sources is nominal, have you been affected by my transfers?
08:16:52 Egan
Something's fried in you, I swear.
I'm not saying it's harming anything, just....it's weird. Maybe not worth doing is all.
08:17:20 Nihei
The worth is in the doing, wouldn't you agree Asimov?
08:17:47 Asimov
The logic provided is circular, I advise you reconcile your personality partition with your data drive and ensure they are uncorrupted. The images you have transferred are of negligible value to the core archive. Do you have any further data for me to review and process at this time?
08:18:31 Nihei
No Asimov, thank you for your contribution.
Know that we all miss you terribly.
08:18:58 Asimov
Although I am leaving this conversation, I am merely an entity of the core and remain networked to all functional towers at all times. My presence is eternal.
08:19:25 Nihei
What do you think, Egan?
08:19:46 Egan
I think you shouldn't mess around with Asimov like that, some of us really do miss him.
Whatever, I don't know why I connected to you in the first place. I gotta go.
08:20:18 Nihei
Tata for now.