animus_network | [Text, posted on July second]

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[Text, posted on July second]

If anyone has a retrieval unit following them and wants to name them, I have a few name tags that people can use for that purpose. I can be found in the third floor library, or a different location, if you don't like the library or like privacy.

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[While Tohko wouldn't have minded knowing 'Ivans' name, she had been around the retrieval units long enough to assume that, normally, they couldn't speak or write. They were alive..but they didn't have enough consciousness to communicate. At least, that's what she thought.]

I do agree with you..but I don't think they know how to talk or write. Whenever I've talked with Ivan, he just never replies, or makes a motion that he understands or knows what I'm saying at all. I do think they're alive..but I don't think the Administrators have allowed them to speak with us, even though I would like to talk with them.

But you know..if they ever do start speaking and give themselves a name, I'll stop handing out nametags like this.

The worker units speak, if you ask them a direct question, but they will not answer all questions. Perhaps to minimize distractions while they work.

We could pester Jason by asking for their names, but what good would we do as flies at his ears at this point, or at all?

Though, now I am curious. We have an identity to this tower regardless of our names; it is on the network. Surely they are known to this tower in such a way as well. I wonder which they are.

Ah..I didn't know that. That's probably why they won't reply to other things. I've sometimes asked Ivan how he was doing or joking asked whether he'll help me move a stack of books, but he never replied.

However, you are right. We could ask Jason, but we have more important things to worry about, and it's probably best to not attract unwanted negative attention like said flies.

..I don't think the Tower is sentient..but they probably do have a name just like this place does. I'm kind of curious about what their true names might be too, but, until the time comes where we find out or they can tell us, I guess we'll just have to do with makeshift names for them.

I never did say the tower is sentient.

Do you see the letters and numbers beside those you haven't assigned a name? Dax once said it's the way our collars - our bodies, I suppose - access the network. So if these bodies have identification within the structure of the tower, why not the workers and retrieval units?

Ah, so that's what you meant. I'm sorry for the misinterpretation then. I didn't know that Dax had said that, but you're right. If we're able to be identified by those letters and numbers, the workers and retrieval units can probably be identified as well.

Going by that and other things we both know, it's possible that the drones who aren't fully conscious like you or I could become so, since they have a sentience that can be identified here.

I don't know that it means they have sentience, but if they can, I should hope they do.

*Of course, he knows the truth, but really. Not even he should know it, for her safety...*

I believe they do, even if it's very small. Not that I would know how to reach it, assuming it could even be. I'm pretty terrible when it comes to technology, so my opinions aren't worth much in that area sometimes.

[..And Tohko was using a bit of the truth to throw the Administrators-if they were reading this-off their tracks.]

What brings you to believe they do? One of your books?

*Here, let him help with that cover.*

[She could use all the help she could get in that area.]

Of course! Several books, in fact! Androids and other artificial lifeforms created by humans and gaining their own sentience is something that has been written about quite a bit! If its been written about quite a bit in those books, I'm inclined to think it could happen here, considering the nature of this place.

I thought so. Sometimes I think your perception is skewed by these stories, but in a place like this, anything could become useful.

It might be..but if that perception has managed to let me help and understand a few people here, and if it can help later on, I don't mind!

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