HELEN
(Tacos pastiche)
When a baby is born, she has almost all of the rods and cones in her eyes she will ever have. 100 million rods, each polling a few times a second. 10 million cones, updating 10 times faster. As she matures, over her life her optic nerve will transmit at tens of millions of bits per second, every second, for sixteen waking hours a day.
Tens of thousands of hairs in her ears connected to tens of thousands of nerves in a tight embrace. Millions of olfactory receptors of hundreds of basic types, combining to give her smell, with every breath, every second. Smoke, sweat, fear, lust. She’ll know you. Ten thousand taste buds with one hundred taste receptors each. You’ll taste right to her.
Tens of millions of nerve endings in her skin, all over her body. More on her fingertips... and other sensitive regions. From the lightest touch, to the tightest hug. Heat, cold, pain; the pressure of your hand, the texture of your skin. And a hundred thousand nerves in her muscles and tendons and in the loops in her ears to support her, balance her, give her grace. So she can walk with you. Dance with you. Hold you.
It takes all of these senses to connect us to our deepest needs.
This is our training data.
Do you want the real thing? She can be all yours, at an introductory rate of only 89.99 Metabucks monthly if you buy before December 1st. Helen, by Meta. (Not available in all territories. Your data will be recorded to improve the Meta Companion experience. Terms and conditions may apply.)