Funny how the things one knew weren't always the same as the things one ended up living through.

Sometimes, Sakura thought to herself, I wonder if there's anything technology can't do. Other than utterly replace the need for free-thinking organics. Then again, maybe there were worlds where it already had. Artificial Intelligence was only artificial because it was created in a way outside the standard understanding of birth; an organic creating life from manufactured materials, building off a different blueprint.

All irrelevant, while also relevant. "Controlling each animal's instinct? I take it if it's genetic, you only get instinctual responses, or genetic memories. If they exist." In the books she'd read on the subject, it'd just been theorized. "How does that work with higher degrees of sentient beings?"