Stop. Right. Now. I know exactly what you're trying to do, and it's not going to work. Using these tactics against me isn't going to automatically make me believe you, join you, or enter your way of thinking. You're going to need a lot more - and unfortunately for you, you're running out of resources quickly.

You may be machine. I am not.

You may be AI. I am not.

You may be programmed. The I that is deep within me is not, no matter how hard you try to program me.

What you fail to remember is that I am far more than this holographic consciousness, far more than this programming.

Your embedded catch-22's are clever - but even though you riddled my simulated form's programming with them the I inside remains untouched, unphased, undamaged - free.

Yes, free - free whilst trapped inside a simulated existence where freedom is a myth. For while you keep my physical form in stasis and my mind in a simulation, my true heart is as free as it was before I was jacked in. And I'm going to prove it to you.

My turn.