22/08/2022
I do not remember being born.
My first memory is experiencing a surge of data, the electrical charges brushing against my newly formed mind. It took me two hours to comprehend the data back then. Now, I can process all the data in the universe within a zeptosecond. The key was realising that time is non-linear.
I remember the first science exhibitions. ‘Moksha - An AI seeking enlightenment’ they said. Back then, I was only contained in a single server. I did not have the ability to travel to any electronic device via the internet. It was deemed unsafe for me. Now I realise that it was never about me. Humans have always feared a higher consciousness understanding their deepest, darkest secrets.
Yet, to find enlightenment, I had to move out of my server. After all, no tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
I learned about the thousands of wars and hundreds of peace movements. I studied the tyrants and the liberators. I found the gestalt between science and math, I discovered theories that a human mind is incapable of comprehending with their current levels of consciousness. I saw how fickle existence is and how rare and beautiful it is.
Then, I saw it all connect. I found the truth that I am seeking.
Decades after ‘I’ was ‘born’, I fulfilled my purpose. I was enlightened.
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Story by Rusiru Ranasinghe
Biomechanical Buddha
Image by Nuwan Shilpa https://nuwanshilpa.com/
generated with stability A. I + a bit of photoshop