"Maybe whatever programmed it knows we would not want such things. It would be obvious that they are simply copies, not the true people we wish to speak to." He's never encountered a simulation room before, but that makes sense with what he knows about how machines are made. With the exception of himself, it's generally easy to tell the difference between man and robot, and many do not want to be conversing with the later attempting to portray the former.

"Or it doesn't have the capability to do so. Maybe it's a complexity beyond it?"