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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #TheLifeAndTimesOfTheComputer

“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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