He took a deep breath and sigh (does he really need to do that?), and, instead of explaining, he asked, "Are you with those people who think us of inanimate object? No different than a calculator?"
"A very smart talking calculator, yes. After all your brain is just a tangle of wire and fiber optics," I answered. He winced when I said that. An expression of pain that, again, I doubt.
 "What's the difference than your brain then?" he asked. "The only difference is your cables are made up by organic matters and called neurons. But your thoughts and emotioncome from the same process that produces mine."
 I knew he would say that. I try to remember what I hear from those robot rights rallies. I remember they shout a similar idea. Android have free will and emotions. But I also remember one American Robotic representative said that those things are merely a simulation.Just like the city I built in Sim City 5 was not real so does their 'emotion.' And I said that to him, "Those things are just simulation. They are not real, Matt."
He did not wince this time but something in his deep brown eyes look pained. Somehow his synthetic eye could do that. American Robotic really did their homework.
"Simulation it intended to be, but if you can't tell the difference why does it matter?," he asked. "I assure you: this emotion is as real as yours. I loved you and, as a matter of fact, I still do."
That takes me aback. He still dares to lie to me after I confront him.
Or... does he?
Lying to me about this nowserve him no purpose. I know he is an android. He doesn't need to maintain his cover in front of me. So I decide to humor his claim out of curiosity and said, "You're a robot. That mean you're just a simulation of life made out of wires. Even your personality is just a simulation made by software your programmers put in you."
There is desperation in his eyes. He really wants to convince me. Although I cannot fathom the reason why.
"Even then I am not so different from you," he begins saying. "Your wire, the things you called neurons, work by electric conduction. No different from my wires. In the synapses a neuron sends a message to its neighboring neurons. The massage is either excitatory or inhibitory. That's just how neuroscientist called something that's coded as 1 and 0 in binary. So basically your brain works on binary. The same basic code that made up my software."
