Capt. Kirk: [of Uhura] What d'you do to her?
Nomad: That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic. Absorbing it unsettled me.
Spock: That "unit" is a woman.
Nomad: A mass of conflicting impulses.
I FEEL ATTACKED LOL. But I can't refute this.
Spock: My congratulations, Captain - a dazzling display of logic.
Capt. Kirk: You didn't think I had it in me, did you, Spock?
Spock: [deadpan] No, sir.
LMAO
Question: Spock used the Vulcan mind-probing technique on Nomad, does it imply that AI does have a mind? I suppose only living things possess minds and consciousnesses, and though Nomad was described as nearly a life form it was still not a living thing as animals and human beings are. I would take it as a plot hole that is inevitable in order to propel the story forward as there clearly was no better way than "mind" probing to ascertain what Nomad had gone through.