"According to you, the 'Source of the Spark' is actually a highly evolved member of the Machine Race. Then what necessary connection does it have to the birth of new members?"
Nie Yun fended off the relentless waves of electronic intrusion while continuing to pry valuable information out of his opponent.
Secrets of the Machine Race like these could not be uncovered through ordinary means. Even the Wulf Empire probably knew nothing about many of them.
"You should know that our race communicates through machine language, just as we are doing now.
This exchange of data is more efficient than the sounds and visual signals ordinary organisms use to communicate. We can clearly understand what the other party is saying, doing, and thinking.
But when we communicate with ordinary humans, even if we understand their words and meaning, we struggle to grasp 'joy,' 'sorrow,' 'curiosity,' or even 'the feeling of wind against skin.'
Ultimately, we are two species with two different sensory systems. Humans find it difficult to teach us what complex, abstract experiences like love, hatred, affection, and enmity actually are.
Even when we can glean something from them, the time required for this learning process is often measured in centuries, or even millennia.
You may have heard that the Machine Race occasionally sends its members to travel through the Wulf Empire. But these journeys only broaden our knowledge. Their effect on the evolution of our intelligence is negligible.
Between members of our own race, however, no such barrier to communication exists."
"So that's what the Source of the Spark does? Teach through words and example?"
In other words, the evolution of the Machine Race is actually a learning process. It requires a teacher, and that teacher has to be a high-level member of the Machine Race? Someone like