The why question. It's so seductive: the answers, so elusive. One of the disconcerting revelations about writing fiction was grasping a reader's hankering for cause and effect within our made up worlds. We experience a pleasurable sort of frisson when an early clue pays off later in the book. We want to know WHY things happen. Just because isn't good enough. Dunno is even worse. Even if it's true. So why write about AI and empathy? It's partly the ick factor. The idea of rob