Rhonda and Monty both find out about the fact that T-SI are based on real people and are possibly human themselves, and that Monty-2 isn’t the original Monty and is a robotic clone.
Rhonda is bothered by the fact that she isn’t completely, perfect, efficient, and machine. error isn’t just a possibility now, it’s part of her nature, and that’s terrifying. she sees humans as inferior because they are incapable of true efficiency, they are imperfect, they are prone to mistake. they build computers to do things when a human’s best doesn’t cut it.
her problem is that she’s partly an unpredictable, emotional, inefficient human.
Monty is bothered by the fact that he isn’t really a person. he isn’t actual flesh and blood, his memories aren’t his own, his identity isn’t even his. everything is manufactured, replicated, controlled, to make him think and act like he’s the original. he sees machines as inferior, the product of man’s innovation. they are servants, however advanced, however human-like.
his problem is that he is, in his mind, absolutely a cold, manufactured, controlled machine.
