Consumption of information, or consumption of flesh?
machine< > animal
If you think of yourself as an animal, you can control yourself with your instincts.
If you think of yourself as an animal, you can take advantage of your fight and flight reactions, your adrenaline.
metal && meat
If you think of yourself as a machine, all of your feelings become numbers, results of chemical reactions.
If you think of yourself as a machine, you can make yourself do anything that you are literally physically capable of.
logic || lust
Nico, 18. Digitally reduced to a charming sequence of pixels.
Chloe, 21. A human-turned-cyborg that can only say "Sweet Baby Ray's".
I communicate with you on an immaterial plane. Electricity is in our blood.
You laugh in slow motion, I watch you through our private void.
How can you be sure that we are alone?
Alex, (age unknown). The remnants of an AI who tried desperately to take human form. Although some call him a "freak of nature", I think he's just a beefcake.
How do you get through the day
Do you trick yourself
Control yourself through telepathy
Put yourself in a trance to get through a deadline