Chi looks visibly relieved that you seem to know what you are doing. She takes a deep breath:
"Okay, you two better record this, cause I won't repeat twice."
She ponders for a second:
"Lets start with what you're here for: AWE... Do you know how the transhuman mind works? The "self" is only a narrative the mind crafts with all the memories contained. Let's say you have a strong memory of a certain person, your mind takes that and deduces that you have a strong link to that person and therefore undertands itself, yourself, better."

"AWE is a extremely advanced psychosurgery suite that takes advantage of that process. It was developped by Cognite, but N.L. managed to get their paws on it. It quite litterally cracks open your mind and interrogates it in extremely accelerated simulspace. It asks about EVERYTHING: whether you like chocolate or vanilla, you like or hate someone, how you feel about certain subjects, etc. This takes weeks in simulspace time. While it does this, it flags any memory strongly linked to the sense of self, things you care about..."

"After the interrogation is done, it brute-force memory edits everything it found, dumbing down the emotional and physical response to the maximum and making your most important memories as bland and forgettable as the type of nutrient paste you had for breakfast 7 weeks ago."

"The next step is takes is to flood the ego with fake memories linked to whoever was programmed as master. It takes these memories and cranks up the emotional and physical responses to maximise association. To the ego, the master becomes responsible for not only everything good in life, but [i]everything[/i] in life." AWE then programs in digital endorphins to be released any time the master is thought fondly of."

"Finally, AWE deletes any memories of the process ever occuring. The ego is therefore turned into a perfect slave to someone they never even met."