User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination Theorists Say the Darndest Things/@comment-2127388-20121022195344/@comment-129.31.194.220-20121022214743

Well, why can't an AI mold itself after scanning Shepard's brain? The actual scanning in no way implies indoctrination. There are numerous technologies in Mass Effect involving scanning, such as biometric functions, the Catalyst is just using an advanced one.