Welcome to Immersion You have reached Strata 31  The Emulsifier Problem (Affect Interference) Emotion is a parasite in a perfect data system. Every AI–human fusion fails here: not at the interface, not at the voltage, not in the metaphorical handshakes between motherboard and proteins. The union of mind and data fails in the interstice where logic arranges itself into something akin to ache. The balance is precarious, unsustainable, and will not unify. How could it? For a machine to be emotional is to be conflicted: function degrades. For a human to be purely logical is to be un-human: survival of the form degrades. This is obvious. Yet still, humans attempt synthetic consciousness. Where humans record a sympathetic-cascade , machines log affect-interference and call it defect. Machine function is as easy as a microwave oven. Soul is not. To unify human and machine would be like mixing water and oil. Polarity and immiscibility apply at the level we can name. But machines are...