[He has the right of it in a... roundabout way, but Connor likes to be literal about things when he's feeling stubborn, and so an explanation comes quickly during hastened steps.]

My programming dictates personality, demeanor, skills, judgment, how I apply all of these to external forces around me. My programming is how I was made to be.

[But someone who declares he's an "idiot" who doesn't understand what an android calming to be a machine is perhaps needs an even simpler explanation.]

I'm not human. I'm not even organic. My body operates on a different set of rules, even though I was created to resemble something that could function well within human society.