4th Enhanced Truth [Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

So. Has anyone out there actually bothered to examine these wings properly? Considering the inevitable amount of comments they get to one degree or another, I'm guessing none of you have them naturally. It doesn't seem like anyone has bothered to do a medical study, either, if your primary source of information on them is anything to go by.

If you'd like to prove me pleasantly wrong, go right ahead. It would be nice to underestimate someone for a change. Otherwise, well. I'm taking volunteers.

Comments

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

Professor, hm? What university and area of study?

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

I... d-do not think you would... r-recognize my university, as it is f-from... Terra...

... But I am an a-astrobiologist.

[He's not sure if GLaDOS will recognize that. But she probably will.]

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

[ "Recognize" and "logically deduce" are two different things, but she only needed to manage one of them. ]

In that case, this sort of study is what I would have expected someone in your field to have done years ago.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

B-Believe me, had the proper... t-technology existed beforehand, I... certainly would have d-done so...

... It was only a few m-months ago that I was... even able to persuade the installation of the... r-rather archaic fMRI equipment that the Battle Dome C-Clinic possesses, and... study of my own w-wings there has yielded nothing out of the ordinary.

[Frustratingly.]

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

Well then, it seems my study will be productive for both our interests. I suppose I should be more disappointed that you managed nothing, but. Well. I'm used to it by now.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

With all d-due respect, if... if you are able to find a-any more information than I can, I will be... qu-quite surprised.

... Not that this is a s-slight against your abilities, b-but... rather an observation that... no one c-can find anything useful. We are... b-barred at every turn from obtaining i-information... [And that's true no matter who it is studying.]

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

Obtaining information is what I was designed to do. And if I do say so myself? I'm rather good at it.

So we'll just see about that.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

Then... h-have you been successful in sequestering data from the B-Battle Dome itself...? That alone would be an... achievement that n-none of us have been able to accomplish...

[Stupid Malnosso blocks on data.]

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

That would depend on the data you're looking for. After all, with enough properly-designed simulations, one can obtain a model from results for almost anything.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

Ah... w-well, primarily... I suppose data on its... m-mechanisms. How it is able to... p-perform the functions it has.

I... s-suspect that the Shifting technology is, er, c-closely guarded in terms of... accessibility.

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

Observing the outside of the box from the inside is widely known to be a difficult task. However, I do have most of the parameters of what is possible within the simulation. From there, it's just a matter of working outwards.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

[Sounds logical enough, although Robert doubts it will be nearly so simple in practise. If it was, a combination task force of himself and Don probably could've already figured out how the computers worked.]

If... th-that is the case, I would... like to see such a s-simulation decompilation...

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

You appear to be under the assumption that this was a single simulation. I have in fact performed many different tests with a wide variety of conditions. [ And subjects. ] Providing a data readout, especially in a form parsable by humans, would be exceedingly difficult as well as essentially pointless.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

... Wh-why would it be... pointless...? Surely you could... b-benefit from additional minds reviewing the d-data...

[And an organic mind might have different insights than a non-organic one.]

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

[ Because she's classified all of her data. ]

I have had more than enough minds program me with various data processing routines that it might as well be throwing an excess of resources at satisfying one human's idle curiosity.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

... If th-that is how you f-feel, then I can... h-hardly ask you to against your w-will...

[It's unfortunate though. He would've liked a chance to collaborate with an intelligent being.]