No, you don't. [pauses, trying to remember how the doctors had put it to her as a kid]
It's a cybernetic body, made up mostly of mechanical parts and wires. All of your senses are artificial and can be turned off if you feel like it. With no real digestive system, eating is optional but essentially pointless. In basic terms, your whole body is a machine and the only natural thing in it is your ghost; which contains your memories and individuality, it makes you who you are and defines you as a person.
[No use getting into the details on the cyberbrain and puppeteering, since that takes a lot of practice just to get right. Oh well. In any case, welcome to her philosophical nightmare: Are you man or machine?]
Hold on. I don't have to eat or sleep? What is this thing?
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It's a cybernetic body, made up mostly of mechanical parts and wires. All of your senses are artificial and can be turned off if you feel like it. With no real digestive system, eating is optional but essentially pointless. In basic terms, your whole body is a machine and the only natural thing in it is your ghost; which contains your memories and individuality, it makes you who you are and defines you as a person.
[No use getting into the details on the cyberbrain and puppeteering, since that takes a lot of practice just to get right. Oh well. In any case, welcome to her philosophical nightmare: Are you man or machine?]
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