“Working at
the car wash yeah!”
The Karate
Kid* #quote
Today I played
around with a music making software. I've wanted to make music for
awhile. I didn't take well to the program. I haven't picked up an
instrument because the instruments I want to play are a bit hard to
get a hold of. For example the Glass Armonica. (Instrument made by
Benjamin Franklin) My family worked together to make a prototype
ourselves but it doesn't function well enough to make good music.
Another instrument I'm looking into is the Theramin, that might be
fun.
Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
The Life And
Times Of The Computer
Mr. Digital was
one of many computers in an office. Life as a computer resembled that
of a human yet differed completely. Throw out physical worries and
the mental and the higher emotions that wreck a human mind day to day
and a machine remains. Mr. Digital resembles someone running on pure
instinct and habit, along with a rush of coffee that makes them never
stop with whatever they are doing unless they completely crash.
A computer's
mind is born when it first turns on and each day it's mind is born
anew. He follows each order and processes each input as fast as the
wires running through him can. More faithful than Fido, Spot or
Lassie. Yet each day Mr. Digital's mind dies when the power goes off.
When the juice
for a machine goes through it only the memory remains. Humans get
granted subconsciousness and their soul continues to flow. The next
day a new mind rises from the restarting machine. How much Mr.
Digital could really be called Mr. Digital when he died the day
before and is merely a new consciousness born from previous memories
is a strange question indeed. One a computer would probably wish it
could ask.
Computers like
Mr. Digital may not have as much of a soul as something like a
person, or even and animal. They are in a competition with plants and
rocks for the right to claim proof of mental awareness. Rocks are in
dead last and some experts agree that they took a slight lead in
front of plants. Perhaps that increases Mr. Digital's chances of
getting into heaven. Depending on whatever happens to his soul when
the power goes off.
And no matter
if it is the same Mr. Digital when the power comes back on or
another, eventually the same thing happens to every computer. The
power stops coming on.
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