From the introduction: What is life? Is it limited to organic beings or is it more? Through wild circumstance or possibly the grace of God, can the simple binary programming of a man-made machine transcend its lowly origin to become the bitter mote of a soul? Exploration of this idea is not to be undertaken lightly, so you will spend the next ten years in a world uniquely suited to such pursuits, starting from one week before the events of the movie begin. Try not to die.