To Roy, the duration of time between fully accepting the state of his station on the floor and the delivery of his interrogative statement before the robot’s optical unit began to once again list was negligible. But for the robot, and an inner turmoil that once again began to bubble and brew in the midst of registering Roy’s grammatical inquiry and resignation to a position he had previously wanted up from, its own reflexive runtime might as well have hence been proceeding by the equivalent of additive increments of musical meter; considering the subdivided, quavering units of measure by which it was beginning to lose control of conscious tracking and comprehension. In the span of several such nanos, vacillating between compound and divisive interpretive duration, question and concern for whether Roy’s statement...

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