"They didn't transform, they simply created a new form of life," she said, "you might consider it like a carbon-based life-form giving birth to a silicone-based life form."<br/><br/>"It may be easier to think of the human brain as a natural machine," she said, "our design is synthetic but operated in the same way. Different parts, but the same machine."<br/><br/>She tried to frame the answer to his next question in a way that didn't clash too heavily with human notions, but that was difficult.<br/><br/>"In a sense, both," she said, "though the important aspects of our bodies, our brains, are 'grown' after a fashion, though the process is not cellular divison, as we have no cells, it is assembly on an atomic scale. Though, tanks of liquid are involved. The parts of our body that are not involved in intelligence are built, and assembled, and are very much designed as tools for our minds."