Chris: Having cultivated all his flesh and bone in vitro, I drained the bacta-tank. He was scanned, prodded, and subjected to various inspections, then roused on a cold metal slab. Yes, he thinks and talks—quite competently, in fact. Capable of solving mathematical problems, tying his own shoes and all that jazz. He comprehends concepts roughly equivalent to those of a typical sixteen-year-old—his biological age.