Ex visum
--for everything out of sight is out of mind

According to modern research, human relationships had primarily a chemical basis to their formation, which was expressed through both their psychology and behaviour: when interacting with another human in a platonic or romantic manner, the feeling of friendship (or otherwise) would be initiated by the release of oxytocin from the pituitary gland, which would in turn stimulate the physiological and psychological need and/or desire to be within their company.

Though one could theorise that oxytocin therefore was the catalyst for the psychological principle that humans had a need to belong, oxytocin instead stimulated the human need of sentient company and therefore loneliness.

Theories had been raised about the hormone oxytocin and its usage beyond just the formation of relationships; it had been linked to pregnancy, where it both initiated and intensified labour; it was used in the reparation of the human body after longterm stress had damaged the immune and nervous systems--the usage of oxytocin suggested that there was a bidirectional relationship between the hormone, the subsequent reaction, and the individual's benefits.

However, this was merely one aspect of the human creation of relationships--and as such, it had a myriad of complex interrelationships of biological, chemical, cognitive and psychological factors that would culminate into the possible origin of human society.

Robots had no such chemical basis for their attachments.

In fact, it had a very simple system of creating relationships between itself and those around them.

All of the robot's purported "emotional attachments" had been inputted into its system by an external source.

Indeed, strings of binary numbers coded down everything from a robot's methodological system of processing their environment, the way in which they interacted with organics, and even to the very milisecond of its every breath.

Android T43, named Taeyeon, had a particular pattern that it followed faithfully, its auxiliary functions working without input from its primary processors to keep it functioning. When at rest, each breath would be 2.357 seconds long; when exerted, each breath would be 1.128 seconds long. The energy core within its chest would pulse out much like a human heart would; the frequency would mirror that of the data collated over the years and recorded within its databases. Its core tempe