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Rachel Eldon and any other robot, or artificial being is a robot, not a human. They do not have any conscience, or any free thinking, feeling, or emotions.

It was very evident in the graphic novel Do Androids Dream of Sheep that Rachel Eldon was in fact not a human and was in fact a robot with artificial intelligence because of her non emotional responses to the test given to her. Rachel Eldon did not have the appropriate response time to questions that were meant to bring out an emotional response. Although she did have the accurate verbal response she lacked the all-important emotional response because she had no emotions. Granted a real person with memories, emotions, and feelings might also fail this test but not for lack of being human. A person with Autism or any other psychological or emotional disorder would have trouble passing this test as well because their emotions and emotional responses would vary from a regular ordinary person.

Emotions come from memories where something happened and it made us feel a certain way. With robots they have no memories so they have no emotions.