"So you were once flesh and blood, but transformed yourselves into...machine intelligences, of a sort?"<br/><br/>He was silent for a moment, wrapping his head around the concept before grinning ruefully. "Clearly, I am going to have to expand to a more cosmopolitan definition of 'living' if I am going to fully adapt to this new environment."<br/><br/>"You talk of parts - are your people built and assembled, living though you may be, or do you grow in a tank or such as an organic life-form would?"