He seems none the worse for wear, beyond being worried and perhaps more than a little guilty, but then it's always possible his tenseness is masking things.

"-- No, it wouldn't ..." He shakes his head. "It doesn't understand the world well enough for that. It only understands energy and data, it can't even recognise other people."

That streak of tenseness and guilt seems to be intensifying with every word he says. "I should go to the Cortex."