“The Tri-Part Convergence”
Silent and still like a rock.
Silent, always withholding, never forgetting.
What was me has become a rock. I guard my mind, shields of psychic armor. They batter
me down, he blasts me. He attachs the chinks, he flashes images of her and of faces not seen
in centuries. He tries to appeal to part of me which he ascertains must still be human. But
the walls are higher and more numerous than even he can possibly imagine.
“Human” has no relevance when the body is gone, when physical need is diminished, when
individuality is marked only by an intuitive sense of one another’s “colors,” or auras, if you
will, and by the retention of one’s last bastion of autonomy: memory. John Locke insisted
that continuous memory holds the key to the unified sense of self. I long ago adopted this
philosophy in the hope, perhaps futile, of maintaining some form of sanity here...
Who and what I was has lost relevance. And yet I persist, static and in between, and none
shall pass throguh my psychic fortitude.
Time, another unsurety... I steel my mind against their battering rams, but periodically, I
must recite the story to myself to retain MYSELF. Countless recitations have reduced the
tale to little less than a nursery rhyme... the meaning has, perhaps, long been lost, like automoton
chants in masonic halls. But I persist, and I recite; I recite to persist.
Again.
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The Tri-Part Convergence and Its Effect of Life on Earth as We Knew It
A Brief Disclaimer on Impotence
Though perhaps recording such cataclysmic events seems futile in the advent of the destruction of our fragile
planet, I write the story nonetheless. I must confess that my role as a historian and lecturer holds little worth
now; my life p...
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...mors abound within the caves about a set of Scrolls which
hold to code to unlock Kaytal, but why would the Machine leave instructions for its own undoing? Alternately,
can we truly interpret the behavior of a purely synthetic entity as being human-like, even if infused with
millions of shards of human consciousness?
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Davidson, Donald. “How is weakness of the will possible?” in Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1980.
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