@Cerebrate
“I have no idea how much a part of them it really is, hence the Pandora’s box analogy; just looking into what makes them
them is what got me the last time. I mean… I could try something with a little gadget I’ve been keeping all these centuries in one of my box-bots…”
“That device, its function was to use closed time-like curves to perform computations impossible in any finite computer, to discover whether we’re all in base-reality, or some kind of detailed simulation. Took it as a war spoil after deactivating a dormant oracle AI just waiting for someone to ask a wrong Armageddon-causing question… I could use it to make a kind of… ‘matryoshka system’, so to speak; simulations superposed within simulations, then try inspecting inert instances of their minds.”
“In short, it’d be like glimpsing through a door keyhole, into another door keyhole, then another, just to carefully piece what I need to know together, with several more doors locked behind me. It’d take a while, and I’d need some help, but I bet I could make these robolds normal again.”