Euniska purses her mouth again, squinting slightly at Spinister. "I don't think animals work like that. They're either smart or dumb, and the dumb ones can't pretend to be smart." Her brow furrows and she rubs at her forehead in thought. "Unless, you like, make an organic computer and program it? That would be kind of gross, though, and then it'd still be a computer, not a life-form, just one made out of different stuff..."

Well, now she's going to have to ping her computer later for information on organic computers.

She tugs at one of her tusks - what little there is of it - and matter-of-factually states, "Robots can be people, but they're not life-forms."