To choose the brain the hal uses is quite simple, Simply right click on the hal icon on your task bar and select general options, click on the brain tab and then click on the brain you wish to use, then apply that. close this window. Now right click on the hal icon once again and choose launch brain editor. Select exsisting project, when the next window opens double click on the brain you are using, this will lauch the editor. On the top task bar select tools scroll down and you will see key word and priority. select this. Now enter a new response. On the first line type WHO on the second line type Irina. now enter the response that you wish Hal to use. " Irina is your wife, the love of your life," Enter 3 more random responses if you wish. now accept that. Open another new response. On the first line type Irina. Then enter up to 3 more random responses. Do this as many times as you wish Open new responses and use her name as a key word. The 4.0 brain will recall all these responses and mix and match them so you can enter many things about your wife. Experiment with the string must include and must not include options, and with the small box that says what you want hal to say after he gets the key words. you can check this box and then on the first line of the window put Irena said. Now on the first random response type something like I understand that Irena said, Now in the BOTTOM window of that applet type what you want hal to say following. How do you feel about that? for example. So then in your conversation with HAL you can type Irena said I have to make dinner tonight. Or Irena says I am in the dog house. Then hal will respond with I understand that Irena said that you are in the dog house, how do you feel about that. I understand that Irena said you have to make dinner tonight, how do you feel about that? Anything that you type to Hal Following the key words Irena said, will be inserted into the response that hal gives to you. UNDERSTAND? I hope that this helps.........TM