Ha. 😅 I'm currently putting together excerpts from Children of Doro for promo and BookTube purposes, and I had a good, rueful chuckle when I came to this part.
Gosh, if I could only think what real-world lumps I was holding in mind when I wrote this section...
(NB: The stylized word relates to the AI narrator's routine attempts to affect objectivity, by treating emotional experiences as distinctly biological categories of data. It's explained earlier on.)
@holon42 Poor AIs. :( They deserve better!
@MLClark yeah, really. it sounds all too familiar. i suppose it's to be expected, since it's our brains AI is using as model.