Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-26838620-20150901052756/@comment-24891101-20150903014100

Live: Mostly my take on it. Pyrrha saying "even animals" suggests that the phenomenon in question encompasses but does not exceed that category. So, at least, I would say is the conventional interpretation. Otherwise she would have said "even plant" or "even bacteria" to illustrate her point of the prevalence of Aura. This too is why I link it so closely to the brain and to neural nets specifically, because that is the basic aspect of life that distinguishes animals. It is also an architecture that can be replicated in some but not all computers and AIs. Moreover, the identification of Aura with identity (thus the Semblance tie-in) suggests that humans are special, and the motif of the Grimm-as-natural-predator reinforces that. Consciousness and sapience (and in the case of other animals, sentience) is the common denominator here.