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Title: The Perfect Lover
Author: Paul Di Filippo
Length: short story
First Publication: Nature, 2006
What the Story is About: “Love is the driver for the mission. Love will supplement the drone’s heuristics in instances where lesser imperatives would collapse. Without that emotion, the failure rate goes up an order of magnitude. And we can’t simulate love yet in the purely moletronic minds.”
Published in the “Futures” series of short fiction in the scientific journal Nature
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Categories: 2000-2009 • Cultured Tissues and Organs • Di Filippo - Paul • Nature • Neuroscience • Short Fiction
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