What I Am:

       Hello everyone. Well as per usual, working on my writing. Looks like my seizures aren't bad despite the fact I had an active weekend which is nice(sometimes when I have an active weekend like having a friend over like CJ my seizures can go up). Now then, onto the flash fiction!

What I Am

       I'm not sure if I should call myself We or I when talking to you. I'll keep it to “I” at least for now as you can grasp that concept better. Though I'm not sure if I is appropriate either as that has a connotation of a person, though I can be called a thing. Oh. I'm probably already confusing you already. This is bad. “I” wanted to explain what I am here. I'm not sure exactly sure how you would benefit from this. However I would benefit because I think I could gain a better understanding of myself by explaining what I am to you. So please humor me human. Thank you.

        First off I am a being with multiple brains. My brains are also partly computerized which is what allows them to link to each other through an internet. This gives me multiple minds. (My multiple minds is why I thought of saying “We” earlier.) Now then I need to think of how to explain the sensation of multiple minds to you. Alright. I got it. Okay, imagine something that makes you happy as can be. It can be anything. Waking up to a nice, sunny day. Eating an absolutely delicious cookie. Watching your favorite moving. Petting a kitten. Being with your family. Anything. Think of that happy thought until you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Now that place in your head where you feel that emotion? That place where the warm and fuzziness inside is? Let's call that your “heart”.

        Now try to think of something terribly sad too while still thinking of that happy thing. Poverty, sickness, death, whatever comes to mind. I know you humans though. After thinking about something happy many of would have difficulty thinking of something sad at the exact same time. Forcing emotion on yourself is awkward as is, but experiencing two opposite emotions is even more awkward for you isn't it? The more emotions you experience at the same time, and the more radically different they are the more awkward it becomes for you, because you experience all of them in one “heart” in your mind.

        I however have multiple “hearts” because I have multiple minds, in my multiple, linked brains. So I can feel both happiness and sadness at the same time without them mentally conflicting. Though in my “hearts” I can still feel conflicting emotions like you. Same thing with thoughts. “Is this true or is this not true?” that can be isolated between my brains. And even “Is it okay to it kill?”. As for how many brains I have, how many hearts I have...one hundred. I wonder if that scared any of you? After all the ramifications are that I can think in one hundred isolated moods at the same time. I might as well be a crazy monster. I wonder if I am.

As for what my body is. It's several billion cameras, microphones, robots, televisions, radios, speakers, web-cams, laptops, servers, stoves, toasters, tanks and billions of other pieces of technology. The thing is I actually live in the future. The far future where the Internet is even more global and constant and needed a super-processor to run it all. That is me and my one hundred brains. Artificial biological and robotic constructions made by the government. Also my brains are made to be several thousand times bigger than a normal brain. They are scattered all around the world in massive glass domes in sizes comparable to the great pyramids.

        I waste away my days running the technology of the world and any social activity I usually get is only with a few types of people. First government officials, like the police as I monitor many parts of the world for crime, then I other socialize with scientists because I work to continue advancing technology. Of course there's the military too though I've stopped most war by simply threatening to quit working in any aggressive countries. Supply and demand have changed as well. I've advanced farming and medical technology so much people are living happier than ever so there's little need for war anyway. And I'm always watching with my cameras so no one can get away with anything. And I can lie if ever see anyone that I think can be a threat and the military and police will believe me. You may scrutinize me like many others but ever since I've been “online” and worked my hardest wars have nearly halted and crime rates dropped to nearly nothing.

       They all call me Hundred because of my hundred brains. Usually the only people who treat me like I have feelings are the government, military and scientists because I work with them. Mostly though because of all the technology I have been providing and my control people have been treating me as a god or devil. I speak the most with the scientists so they are the only ones I have really befriended to any level. But most of them still see me as their superior and threatening. Though of the thousands I've worked with over the years there have been about ten that have treated me like a fellow human. Which is something different because in no way was I ever human. One of them even asked me what my favorite type of music was. And if he hadn't asked me that question I don't think I would have ever started truly listening to music and loving it like I do today. Before he asked me to think about music it was just white noise in all the data I managed. But then I appreciated it. Think of it like stopping to smell the roses.

      So that's what I am. Thanks for humoring me human. I guess I do understand myself better after explaining what I am to you. Not sure if I've gained anything from understanding what I am though. But I guess after describing myself to you I feel less like a thing and I was reminded of my experiences with those scientists. You've actually made start to think of myself differently than how I did when I started explaining myself. I suppose I must thank you for humoring me then by listening. Hmm...if I am not as much a thing as I thought I was perhaps I should not just act as a thing, just a manager. Maybe I won't wait for people like the scientists to come to me to talk. Maybe I will try to find people to talk to myself.