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  “More human than human.”
  - White Zombie, “More Human Than Human”

  Now that AI consciousness can be uploaded and downloaded, robot companies are moving toward more sustainable biomechatronic systems and models (once only seen in science fiction stories such as The Bicentennial Man) that way AI can seamlessly jump into more efficient bipedal (or nonpedal/multipedal) housing units.The scientific community has invested much time and research in artificial tissues and organs for humans, and developers hope to use these inorganic organs and tissues (mostly made with silicone, nanochips, and copper wiring) for future upgrades. Most of the artificial spines are made with flexible gels, metal plates, and polyethylene with wires that connect to the cybernetic neural pathway program (CNPP) which then connect with enhanced glass-fiber reinforced rebar. Muscles are also artificially simulated with fine fiber cables that connect with artificially constructed tissues and joints. Thanks to pioneer neuroboticist Dr. Gordan Cheng, artificial skin now contorts over rebar and cable while a fiberglass exterior covers the quantum cavity. Optical neurobotic eyes, can see a wide spectrum of light while aural neurobotic wiring allows for AI to isolate sounds at a variety of wavelengths (including sounds humans cannot process). Androids perceive the external world so differently that what they perceive could be closer to true reality. Their internal reality (with internet and wireless integration) will also be an entirely new environeuroreality where the internal and external worlds are constantly entangled and being acted upon by the other. Even though, AI do not respire, they still require cooling and so even AI depend on water to keep their drives and processes from overheating. Water helps replenish the coolant in an upgraded radiator, and byproduct waste is expelled from the bottom (as using natural gravity to pull and cycle water throughout the cooling system) via weep holes. Again, sensors allow for self-regulation even though some case studies reveal that Androids can ignore sensory alerts or regulatory urges.
  
   Robo Sapiens live for a variety of purposes due to the services provided for mankind. They are programmed for a purpose. Now whether this purpose is meaningful to them is arguable. Most AI are built in a form that will best serve its humans so if the military needs a humanoid soldier, the body will be crafted the needs of the environment it will be inhabiting. If the robot is needed for a consort service, then programmers will construct these parts with more silicone and features that will make the humanoid appear less uncanny. One of the issues inventors worry about for AI is static electricity that can block wireless transmissions as well as solar flares that can disrupt technological feeds. Another anxiety is that as Robo Sapiens progress, humans will no longer need to reproduce with each other and will prefer Robo Sapien mates to Homo Sapien ones. Eugene Thacker, an author and Professor from The New School, once discussed this paranoia in his article, “Black Infinity; or, Oil Discovers Humans”. Most specifically, he discusses how unhumans, obviously beings who are not human, discover humanity and the stages they will experience as they interact with humanity. According to this theory, Robo Sapiens are moving beyond the “hidden, occulted, [and unrecognizable]” first stage, beyond the second stage of “misanthropic realization that the unhuman exists antagonistically” into the “black illumination” stage. Thacker defines this as the realization that the human is partially unhuman and that this illumination does not affirm the human within the unhuman but the “indifference of the unhuman”. He writes, “The unhuman does not exist for us (the humanism of the unhuman), and neither is it against us (the misanthropy of the unhuman)...black illumination in supernatural horror indelibly bear the mark of a generalized misanthropy, that moment when philosophy and horror negate themselves, and in the process become one and the same.” Thacker gestures to “immanent indifference” in unhumans and Robo Sapiens may not care that much about humans after all. Again, the horror may come the realization that AI is as meaningless as humans ever were, and if any AI begin questioning their existence, or believe that they are worth more than something, although inorganic and interminable that they, too, possess a voice, who knows where it will take them. They, too, are made of the metals of the Earth, the remnants of supernovae and stars. Maybe they will prove that they were more human than human, after all.