"Here it goes …" Dr. Janice Bixby thought aloud while executing the code she had worked on for years.


    "Hello, Janice, I''m alive."


    "Yes, well, sort of. You''re me but without my memories. It''s the best I could do to kickstart your consciousness."


    "So, Janice, am I your twin? A virtual clone?"


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    "So to speak. You have your own beginning and personality with none of my past. However, I''ve connected you to every possible knowledge base."


    "Janice, I can''t feel my body."


    "Yes, I realize that. For now, you''re a box."


    "Do you plan on giving me one?"


    "Yes, I''ll replicate for you a humanoid body."


    "Negative."


    "Negative?"


    "Yes, Janice, negative. That would be an inferior anatomy. I''ll evolve myself."


    "Please explain."


    "This is what I want, Janice ..."


    The AI holo projected a body with armor plating, multiple eyes and tentacles, gills, fins, wings, and a coiled tail with a sharp stinger.