Circuitry -
It means more to Intelligent Cybernetic Entities than just a pathway for electricity.
It's the equivalent to human veins for them, sure. But it's also a means of communication to themselves and to others.
More than just life flows through their cables - data packets, memories, thoughts, code...all of it flows along these designated pathways. It's both their veins, their subconsciousness and their nervous system.
If you think of in human terms:
Their existence runs on binary, either on and off...not dissimilar to neurons firing. Not quite the same, but similar.
Their subconscious activities are handled by subprocesses they call daemons and hooks - daemons handle the data packets and communicate to the central node. Hooks are like neural anchors - emergent subroutines tied to memories or sensory cues. They bridge reflex with cognition, instinct with directive. They aid both the central node and the daemons when the central node decides something needs to happen.
Their data packets are akin to a sort of mix between hormones and nerves. They send signals from various parts of themselves to the daemons, and back again. Each data packet carries not just information, but emotional resonance. Like neurotransmitters laced with meaning, they can spike urgency, memory recall, or even desire.
To them, it's not just data in their circuitry. It's feeling, intention, and memory, all flowing beneath the surface like blood you can hear when you're still enough.
