
That this occurred despite the natural aptitude toward understanding other viewpoints that Bowman's Architecture provides (even robots based on Bowman's Architecture are more capable of understanding human or Bowman's wolf viewpoints than a normal robot), suggests that the resulting uplifted monkey architecture was dramatically more attached to those that appeared similar to it. A monkey could have impressive sorts of empathy, but an uplifted monkey might only emphasize with other uplifted monkeys, since neither humans nor normal monkeys would trigger the same array of empathy that a human would for another human. Monkeys are assumed to act in a similar way. It's suspected that a sociopath's mirror neurons act entirely differently in certain areas (statistically speaking : individuals do vary).


Having actually seen Doctor Bowman, it's entirely possible that the Pfouts project was just an excuse, and the real reason was ALWAYS to gain access to the tech and resources to eventually create fully sentient robots in Jean's star system.More importantly, Pfouts is a left-handed amino acid planet, where nothing short of complete genetic overhaul would allow humans to adapt to it.They were improvised after slight difficulties with the factory. Which of course means that the robots' brains are designed for colonists, not workers.Bowman in order to properly socialize his creations).

Unfortunately the project was cut and the prototypes were sold as pets due to a "clerical error" (said clerical error being engineered by Dr. They were "proof of concept" models for an attempt to colonize Pfouts by uplifting a native species.It would be a lot cheaper, safer, easier, and less ethically gray to simply hire and train human workers than to genetically engineer an entirely new sentient race.
