"Meaning what?" asked Golam.

"Meaning that I think it's possible for an intelligent software program to learn to love. You think these kinds of things are hard to understand?"

"Where's the power, Ms. A?"

"You have a question for everything, don't you Mr. G? The power, as you call it, is in every rational being who announces itself as part of the phenomenology of discourse. This thing we're having here, you and I. It's called a connection, an interactive flesh experience. Pretty cool, huh?"

"This is not an interactive flesh experience Ms. A. This is simuflesh. Haven't you read the news lately?"