"Well, my answer to that question must be ambiguous," Hackworth said. 
"The Illustrated Primer is an extremely general and powerful system capable of 
more extensive self-reconfiguration than most. Remember that a fundamental part
of its job is to respond to its environment. If the owner were to take up a pen 
and write on a blank page, this input would be thrown into the hopper along 
with everything else, so to speak."