Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26025032-20160119021526/@comment-24891101-20160119174544

The neural net theory stems from reconciling two facts: That animals, presumably even simple ones like ants, with little processing power have aura, while conventional computers and supercomputers, not to mention the Grimm, who clearly have some processing capability of their own, do not. It can't simply be processing power. Enter architecture. The immediate commonality, at least to me, is the presence of a nervous system, so utterly unlike man-made computers. This is fed by the general sci-fi phenomenon of neural nets and synthetic intelligence to suggest that something about the laws of physics of Remnant's universe causes neural nets to generate something that humans call the soul and aura.