Mood: Direly Hungover
Depends entirely on the hardware architecture you’re running on. For example, a typical House 'bot is defined by a nested, matryoshka structure of multiply redundant systems - it’s about the mind, not the body. Most 'bots run off a universal droid/proxy platform - but the platform itself is agnostic; it could be slaved to a remote mind (human or machine) or occupied by biological wetware, or… in most cases, this minimal matryoshka platform. What this means is that the bot has a whole net of inter-related and increasingly complex systems that support its consciousness. At the base is a kind of femto-scale pascalene gear-work - real steampunk stuff - a clockwork mind encoding thoughts on tiny differential gears. Its there as a hold-over from the Majid wars, when there was a real danger of code compromisation. This is purely mechanical - you need physical contact to hack it.
Above that is a doped silicone substrate - the old digital/optical systems, running a relatively convincing simulation of an old-style Majid neural network. And above that is a room-temperature quantum computer - a lacework thing running an incomprehensibly complex analogue to a human neural net. Much faster than a base-line human, I should add - but at its heart its a simulation of billions upon billions of neurons. And if you know what the physiological effects of alcohol are… and you can simulate the right chemical and endocrine inputs its relatively trivial to simulate drunkenness.
As an aside, one of the reasons why 'bots ended up being granted House citizen status (after the unpleasantness of the Majidae) was that they were able to do something as utterly useless (and destructive) as getting drunk. A kind of annihilatory Turing test…
Anyway, that’s just House hardware. Not sure what you’re running, but I hope you’re able to get a drink this 'eve.
