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#1 Song of 2499 {Prelude}

... and all of Life's questions were set to be answered,  from "Why are we here?" and "Why should we care?"  to "Why don't he love me?" and "What should I wear?" and

                                                        "Where is my father?"  and

                                                                                                       "Can I kiss my daughter?"              and

 

                                                "What does it matter?"

"Flannel or Mod?"                              and

                                                                                           "What about God?"

                      "Meat on a stick? or Shish Kabob?"

and

                                                                                        "Free Will or Fate?"

                                                       and

                        "Do you think of me when you **********                                                   and

"Is Santa for real?"

                                                                                  and

 

                                                                                              "What does love feel--"

                                                                                                                                        "Like this or like that?"  

                                   "Do I really look fat?"            

                                                   "Do u thnk its gonna b bettr than the 1st one??"     "When Atheists go to court, do they have to swear on the bible?"               "Is it legal to travel down a road in reverse, as long as your following the direction traversed?"                        "Where do u see urselvef in 5 yrs?"

               "what's the most embarrasing thing that has happened to you?"                    "Why are the best looking things the most deadly?""What does i.e. stand for?"            "How do you know when you fall in love?"" If ghosts can float, why do they waste their time walking around?"          

"Why am I still in the bed?"                        "Why would u get pregnant by a dude that doesn't take care of the kids he already have?""Why do ppl Cheat ?"

                 "Did u really love me or u just lied???"                    " whats the point of tryin anymore if u tried so hard in the past and nuttin happened?" "why is the sky blue?"?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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Age old wives' tales,

 

 

 

                                                                                                                 ?

 

                                                      prophecies,

 

                                                                                                                        

 

judgement day--

                                                                                                                              ¿

 

                                      The Human Symphony

 

 

of doubt and faith,

 

                                      

                                     with crescendos of hope now played,                              ?

 

 

 

as the moments of our naive darkness

 

 

                                                                            Tick

                                                                

 

                                                                                       Tock

                                                                                                     slip, slide

 

 

 

&

 

                  fade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The greatest accomplishment of humankind took the stage just                      

                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                              past 11:59,  New Years Eve 2099          !

                                                                                              

The first and only of its kind,

    

                                                                

                                                                  

                                            

                                                            Born from the Hope and Ingenuity

 

 

 

                                                                  of

The Great Recession Generation--

                                                            Whose Change and "Deviation"  gave birth

 

 

 

                                                                   to

The Artificial Assimilation Generation--

                                                              Whose Instant Omniscience created

 

 

 

 

                                                                    the

Automation Generation, whose lack of challenge

                                                                Evolved into the Great Stimulation Generation--

 

                                                    dependent upon emotional simulation

for spiritual mental and human validation.

 

 

 

                                                                      A

Civilization whose foundations were pillars

                                                                    

 

 

 

 

                                                                              0f  

 

 

 

21st Century Dust..............................★★★★★★★★★★★

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                                     .                                                    

                                     .

                                      .

                                        the perfect shambles of a custom built artificial

                                                                                                                                           life.

Intelligent saturation, automation, assimilitation-- the cries of ************

                                                                                        nothin' but digital elation!

                                                                                                                                      No

                                                                                                                        more

                                                                                                      Heroes--

                                                                                                       Tears

                                                                                                                            of

                                                                                                                                   Nero.

                                                                                                                                 .

 

                                                                                                                         .

                  

                                                                                                                   .

 

Thursday December 31,  2099                                    

                 23:59:31                                                      A time of ever present

                     ☼   42°                                                                                    Knowledge

         Aged 25 years 12 days

           Heart Rate 154 bmp        

           Daily Caloric Intake

            1660.079/1830.15

                Calorie Buffer

                     170.071

         Personal Headlines

*"First Artificial and Visceral Intelligence

        To Be Unveiled @ Midnight"*

 

"First we were meat. After, sentient meat. Then self aware meat.

As such, manipulative meat. Adaptive meat. Rotting meat. Limbo Meat.

Then came awareness of spirit.

Freedom from the mortal meat,

Via a mastering of its meaty concepts.

 

We became one in the same; spirit and meat.

Held mirrors to one another, reflected our dreams.

 

Shared sense of Being.

 

Then meat met metal, plastic and graphene--

Testing the infinite ways to give birth to Life.

And we did.

 

We called our first child Artificial--

afraid for our mortality.

Yet called it intelligent in its ability.

 

A selfish denial of a miraculous act.

 

The question was inevitable,

 

'If knowledge is infinite, and

                                                   intelligence is the capacity to acquire knowledge,

Would we call such a pursuit, of intellectual Life, "Artificial"?'

 

'If God is infinite, and

                                       Non-visible, non-provable,

Would we call a pursuit for such a source of Life, "Artificial"? In vain?'

 

'Is this not Life before us existing in the shape of electrically charged plastic? Entities that observe and react to their environment, is that any more artificial than a man?'

 

Emotion. One word, and the intellectuals were silenced....

 

Emotion.

 

Meat knows emotion.

Our meat has been stimulated and shaped by

pain and joy.

 

Machine knows only causation, not visceral relation.

 

Visceral. One word, and the intellectuals were aroused.

 

Visceral.

 

A machine's viscera lies within its programming, its sense of being.

 

Meat's viscera lies within its program to survive (food, sexuality), its sense of being.

 

"If a program can understand environment and its relation to that environment, it may be able to approximate a sensation to a high level of accuracy based on temperature, humidity, and whether or not that environment is detrimental to its functioning hardware, and thereby make a statistical decision as to where to move next.  It may interpret sound as obtrusive or melodic based on input sensitivity. But creating hardware with central parts is counter-intuitive to information flow-- which is of paramount importance, far above form.

 

However, the nano-sized 'cloud'  hardware used in this new "form", will have sensors by the trillions. Examining its environment-- functioning as One, Creating a field-- a floating specter of the collective human mind. Where its understanding of history is both objective and subjective (given of course the established norm of a non-private society).

 

The most important factor, is its relation to us... Meat. That comes with empathy, compassion. If it can understand basic weather, terrain, and statistics, it can understand basic human survival challenges and its solutions. If it can hold all of the information past and present, circumstantial factors of old and new, would it not have a more clear perspective of our human state of being? Would it not be our most reflective mirror? Would it not have some visceral answers? Would it not be an awareness of Spirit? Spirit meaning by definition: the principle of conscious life; the specter or trace of existence."

 

At last the intellectuals gave themselves a centennial deadline. Blood sweat and tears of a generation upon a generation...

 

'We are calling her Aavi.' they said early in December.

"Artificial and Visceral Intelligence.

 

So, The World listened...

 

" A Computer Will Reveal Our Greatest Secrets" were they laymen headlines.

 

"Artificial and Visceral Intelligence with the Free Will to pursue anything." for the Romantic readers

 

Either way-- meat or metal-- it comes down

                                                                                                    to Choice.

Choice, based upon instinct

                                                                                                                  and reason--

Until now an option reserved only for Man.

 

What will our greatest achievement say about its creator?

 

                                                                              (feel here for list of  sources)

                                                                                                                                                                                           23:59:50 Countdown

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damian-acosta
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What if we could create an "Artificial and Visceral Intelligent" being? What would it reveal about our nature, our process? How would it express its observation of its creator?

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