DIEGO VALLE

I’m not sure about many things in life, but I’d have to say my insecurities play a major roll on whatever it is that I pursue and even every now and then get to fight for. At twenty-one and a month and so from twenty-two, I’m scared of going on the instincts.

Now you see, for some it is easy to just go and do things the way they’re meant to. We robots, have a different approach. Our over-researched behavior patterns tend to bring us to uncomfortable situations. We are those who seem to be the perfect hunters of awkward silences, those you can barely understand their working/eating/living/sleeping/talking habbits.

When we robots meet, is just like heaven. But at the same time, hell. We realize we’re not made out of stainless steel and circuits but instead of flesh, bone and pheromones. Being the latter the responsible for the afloating insticts that will only deny our self-imposed non-human existence. Catalizing an urge in us to research and over-analize the situation as a whole and in very (and sometimes extremely) particular ocassions.

Hidden messages may not be there, but might as well they be. When a robot tells a robot something, it is condemed to be a coded message. So if male-robot wants to tell female-robot “you are everything i’ve ever looked for”; he might say something like “i’m amazed by the way your RAM memory process data so fast”. In return, female-robot would mean to say “i’m so glad i’ve found you and i’m looking forward to so much more” when she displays on her 17″ LCD screen low-resolution 12fps online imagery.

But then again, female-robot may not be a robot. And 12fps may only be random online imagery. And if she’s not a robot, male-robot will only be sending binary coded messages in vein and missrepresenting casual ammounts of 1’s and 0’s he’s convinced he’s getting in return. The paradox is in how finding another robot makes male-robot feel more human, like he still has a need for companion, yet is so affraid to feel; and how if female-robot is not a robot but a human, male-robot will only feel condemed to speak in html to no other but himself for an everlasting eternity.