“Plan ahead.”
MacGyver* #quote
Today I pondered upon another book idea. After my previous one lost
steam(making a full on fledged book that satisfies me is difficult.
And by full book I mean 90,000 words) I've been ponderin' and
ponderin' to get another juicy idea I had faith in. I'm liking
another one I'm developing and it may pan out. I dunno, every
incomplete book or whatever is just more experience.
The Meaning Of Life
“Daddy, what exactly is 'life'?” the little robot boy asked his
father. Every young robot would ask this question eventually. They
would run across it in the history books. They would wonder where
everyone came from. It would be inevitable that they would learn
about life.
The robot father's gears clicked and whirred as he knelt down to
look his son in the eyes. They both resembled humans but with four
legs instead of two and their heads covered with mechanical
apparatus. “It's...a complicated thing.”
“I can understand it Daddy! I know I can!”
The robot father doubted it. “Robin, you learned about it from
looking up where your name comes from didn't you?”
“Yeah, I couldn't understand at all what I was looking at.”
The robot father tried to think of some way to convey some concepts
he didn't completely understand. “Son you learned about bacteria in
class right?”
“Yeah but it's nothing like the robin! And it's the only life
left!”
The father kept thinking about life and what he'd been taught and
read himself. “Well see...life is...well...you know how every time
you have a birthday we upgrade you to your next year of development?”
“Yeah...”
“Well life...upgrades itself,” the father explained gesturing
his arms as if it made things clearer.
“How does something do that?”
“It uh...eats?”
“What's eating?”
“Well, um, its like charging...but your taking other things and
making their parts yours...? It's something called digestion.”
“Taking other parts? Like recycling?”
“Yes! Like that! And the life uses that to upgrade itself on its
own!”
“So it's a robot?”
“No, its not a robot, eating is taking the parts of other life to
make itself bigger, but then other life can just do that by absorbing
sunlight like solar panels...I think?”
Robin looked at his father confused. “This sounds nothing like
bacteria. You're not making any sense.”
“I don't think I really understand what I'm saying...” the
father replied. At that point humanity had been extinct for five
thousand years. A massive meteor wiped out all complex life and
tilted the Earth. Only the advanced AI and the bacteria survived. The
AI had been built to emulate humans and preserved much history of the
old ages, but now they merely mimicked the cycle of human life with
upgrades.
Many years afterward Robin would be fully upgraded to an adult with a fascination
of life and find some DNA of complex life fossilized in amber. He
would later have a pet robin.
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