Kind of both, actually. The initial formatting was mainly chemical, and much of it was done in the initial layout of his DNA before his zygote was synthesized (which is why he's Number 47 - it was a trial-and-error kind of thing), but the interfacing and updating is all electrical (though in the body, electrical input usually leads to chemical response on some level).
Programming is controlled via a - this is clarified in my mind by New Caledonia - small 'digital insertion point' on his right retina. There's an electrical-impulse generator (similar to, though more advanced than, the ones used to treat tremors in sufferers of Parkinson's) attached to his ocular nerve that sends signals back into his brain, based on what the digital insertion point picks up (assuming it's correctly aligned with the equipment constructed to interface with it). Those signals are synonymous with binary code, and (because of the initial neuron formatting, and the nice coincidence that DNA strands function on the same on/off binary principle as Turing machines and basic computer language) direct his brain to create or ignore/destroy pathways.
The EMP generator is charged by his body by leeching off natural electrical-impulses traveling along the nerve, usually as he sleeps, so there's no need for battery replacement.
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Date: 2007-11-05 05:29 pm (UTC)Programming is controlled via a - this is clarified in my mind by New Caledonia - small 'digital insertion point' on his right retina. There's an electrical-impulse generator (similar to, though more advanced than, the ones used to treat tremors in sufferers of Parkinson's) attached to his ocular nerve that sends signals back into his brain, based on what the digital insertion point picks up (assuming it's correctly aligned with the equipment constructed to interface with it). Those signals are synonymous with binary code, and (because of the initial neuron formatting, and the nice coincidence that DNA strands function on the same on/off binary principle as Turing machines and basic computer language) direct his brain to create or ignore/destroy pathways.
The EMP generator is charged by his body by leeching off natural electrical-impulses traveling along the nerve, usually as he sleeps, so there's no need for battery replacement.