Wild Snarks have wondered what humans dream of, or even if they dream at all. Some great wild snark scholars such as Snarko, have claimed that humans are figments of a Wild Snarks imagination. I do not accept this view; what Wild Snark would be so perverse as to imagine a human, they must exist. There is an allusion here to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? it is a dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct.

Ben Goertzel is one of the most respected figures in artificial intelligence, and one of the most colourful. Committed to creating an advanced form of artificial general intelligence that would genuinely simulate human consciousness, he has relocated to Hong Kong, where he receives financing from the government and oversees an international team of technologists. Now, he must present his investors with a child-like robot that would be a significant improvement on current technology.