User blog comment:ElementQueen/What Creature Would You Be?/@comment-4867780-20140910034017/@comment-4867780-20140910051114

An Absorbing Replicator is not a human being, it is ultimately a sentient system with no trait of its own, that just happens to take on a human form and mind, because mankind happens to be the dominant species on Earth.

Its "humanity" is nothing more than a momentary template used for functional purposes. If human potentialities are exhausted, it will simply use and recombine the collected data into new mental templates to choose from.

Besides, considering it can switch properties at will, problems like melancholy could be solved as easily as you press a button, simply by switching disfunctional mental properties to more productive ones. In human terms, it would be like an instant 100% effective antidepressant.