For those who have not kept informed of our experiment, let me bring you up to date. On 3 July 4112, we discovered a pair of mechas designed to look like a human boy and a miniature bear. Archaeological dating puts his manufactured date in the late 21st Century, before what we believed to be the first date of actual sentient mecha intelligence.

"Our initial assumption was that these were more "supertoys" which were popular in the 21st century. We later discovered this assumption to be wrong.

"They were found non-functional, power drained, and seriously damaged by the extended freeze. But luckily they both came equipped with molecular memory which is actually preserved in the cold temperatures, as opposed to the faster and cheaper quantum gel memory developed in the early 22nd century which turns into a useless paperweight in extreme conditions.

"As you may know, the popularity of quantum gel technology has kept us from acquiring any memories of Earth bound pre-freeze sentients. In my honest opinion, we are very lucky our space bound ancestors were equipped with the more durable technologies needed for the extremes of space travel.

"It was to our surprise and delight that when we simulated the downloaded memories of the boy, it turned he was not a supertoy at all, but an actual sentient from the pre-freeze period, the first we found on Earth with fully intact memory.

"Based on these memories, we were able to create an "artificial reality simulation" in which we could run the boy's memories within a simulated environment. We created his home according to the memories which he had. Visual, auditory, texture and olfactory memories were exact enough to simulate a copy so real he could not tell the difference. By running the simulation, we hoped that the boy could tell us much about humans and about the pre freeze world.

"Once the simulation was created, we were able to adjust the simulation and restart it from the beginning. Despite a perfect simulated environment, we found that exact simulations were too disorienting to the boy. It seems with sentience comes fantasy.

"Our simulations revealed that the boy cannot deal with the world as it really was. We had to adjust his simulated world into a fantasy world according to the way he wanted it to be, otherwise his reactions were strongly negative and impossible to deal with.

"Initially, the boy also had problems accepting the fantasy reality as well. He could not understand why the world was better than he remembered it. The boy also had problems adjusting to the missing experience of sitting in the amphibicopter, the last thing he remembered, and suddenly waking up in his old room.

"The solution we came up with was to give him memories of waking up in the amphibicopter, meeting us, and meeting the "blue fairy" to grant him his wishes. This made it easier to accept the differences between his fantasy environment and the world of his actual memories, he would attribute all differences to the "blue fairy". Since he is now familiar with who we are, It also allows us to appear to the boy in his simulation and explain things we want him to know.

"The one thing we could simulate with exactitude was the "teddy bear", because it too had intact memories. The problem was this: The boy's sentient nature caused a difference in reaction between what was simulated exactly and what was simulated according to the way he wanted them to be. Since the bear was not sentient, he had the exact opposite response as the boy. He acted normal in perfectly simulated worlds, but acted differently in unrealistic simulations.

"So, when we simulated the world according to the boy's wishes, the bear reacted differently enough to cause the boy to realize the world was not real.

"That damn bear!

"Ultimately, we had to let the bear in on what we were doing so he would behave the way we wanted him to behave.

"Then there was the problem simulating "Mother". As difficult as it was to find the right balance between a simulated world as it was and a simulated world the way he wished it to be, the problems of creating a Mother simulation the boy would accept proved to be impossible.

"Creating a Mother simulation exactly as the boy remembered her resulted in the boy rejecting her rather quickly.

"Creating a Mother simulation exactly as the boy wished her to be resulted in too much repetitive behavior ultimately causing the boy to reject her later. The irony of creating simulation of human when the point of these experiments is to learn about humans is evident.

"Ultimately the solution we came up with was to tell the boy a lie. We told him we could "bring his Mother back to life", but she would only last a day. This allowed the boy to interact with the mother of his fantasies and resolve his issues, and we could shut down the mother simulation before she became repetitive and give away her true nature.

"In order to pull off this lie, we had to simulate the "bear" miraculously discovering a DNA sample of the mother. In truth, DNA could allow us to create a "twin", but the memories and behavior would be completely different. In other words, useless.

"The boy was not educated enough in scientific understanding to realize this impossibility. Just in case he figured this out, we also told him we had the technology to retrieve her memories from the past. This was a lie of course. The Mother simulated memories and behavior were derived entirely from the boy's memories of her.

"If it were possible to retrieve human memories and simulate them even for a day, there would be no interest or need to conduct the experiments on the boy. So far, the boy has yet to figure this out.

"After months of trial and error experiments, we now have a simulation of a sentient boy who has resolved his mother issues and accepts his new reality. We can now study a working sentient of the world of the past.

"Some possible future experiments:

"It may be possible to find a working "mother" simulation at the old Cybertronics building. These records retrieved from Io* indicate that "Mother" was shut down, but the old memories may still be intact since she was created before quantum gel memory came into wide use. Since this "Mother" was created from the memories of David's actual mother, it might be possible to create a "Mother" that lasts more than a day. We could continue the simulation and have the boy age and actually grow old.

We could repair or create from scratch a new body for David and introduce him into the world as it now exists. He may be able to tell us things about the ruins and what they were before the freeze. We are open to more suggestions and inquiries.

"Full details to follow."