"I am, as easily as it can be put, a synthetic life-form," she said, turning to talk to him while they walked, able to navigate the ship quite easily.<br/><br/>"The Var, or at least, the humans who were once called Var," she said, "discovered through their work that the operation of a brain, a human brain, or any other brain, is a purely physical construct, and replicating it was merely an engineering challenge, and nothing more. They set about doing so, and in a way, created what are now the Var. We are not artificial intelligences in the sense that you might imagine. Instead, our minds are physical like human brains, and operate in the same manner, with different parts. Much in the same way that a person might replace every part of a vehicle with another material and end up with a identical vehicle, made of different materials."<br/><br/>She finished speak, hoping she hadn't confused him. She realized it might be easier to describe what she was not to help clarify.<br/><br/>"I am not an Android simply because I am not a robot," she said, "I am living in the same sense that you are living, however, the parts that make up my body, are entirely synthetic."<br/><br/>She smiled and fixed her hair for a moment before speaking again. She was not unused to explaining exactly what she was, though with members of their universe, she at least had a basis to work from, being that the Var were not completely unheard of.<br/><br/>"Though, truly sentient artifical intelligence is quite possible," she said, "as is a fully-body prosthesis, though the Var use niether."