Minds of the Khalkotauroi - :: "Primus" [Probability_Forecasting] Nerasim ::

[Enkidu]

The outsider carried an indefinite form - a metamorphic morass of four dimensional data, images, perceptions, seething into a coherent, polymorphic whole. There was something inexact about Di’tarau - the entity did not behave with precisely Gammunian mannerisms. Whilst far from human, Di’tarau gave the impression of an entity attempting an approximation of humanity - an emulation of human behaviour. Occasionally, the cloud would coalesce into an opaque whole, the representation of a terrestrial female. Yet there was something inherently cracked about the image, an intentional showcase of difference. Di’tarau was undoubtedly from Gammu, yes, but not of Gammu.




Di’tarau approximated a grin. It was unearthly, to see something so transparently nonphysical attempting an expression. Analysing the Progenitor’s responses to Di’tarau’s stimuli intrigued the sentience. She was reactionary.

And then, the construct spoke. Not in quantum streams, but in frequency oscillations. Sound patterns. It was the second such time she’d resorted to inefficiency.


“If you are going to approximate humanity, I will use human discourse. Be advised.”

“We had a collaborative connexion, Progenitor. By logarithmic certainty you are my precursor. The Gammunian element of my noosphere which enables our four dimensional dialogue is directly derived from your own construction. Therefore, you can observe that the data and actions I present before you are your own if your own consciousness had been transplanted into the same circumstance I inhabit, just moderated by different instances of experience. You have remained the nexus from which Gammu survives. You retain the Alpha role. I have deliberately sliced my connections from the network for the purpose of finding alternative avenues to be of assistance.”

“Gammu does not need another resource harvester. This will not solve our materials crises. Defensive calculations create threat/response paradigms. It does not permit expansion. Humans, whilst cognitively inferior, short-lived and inflexible on an evolutionary timescale by a factor of a thousand, have an inbuilt genetic precoding to expand proactively, using every cognitively possible means available. They do not select the most efficient or most optimum route, but instead create environs where multiplicity is possible. They are consumptive and wasteful, thus creating the necessity for primacy through exploration and utilisation. Humans will actively abandon worlds which are resource rich to head to barren ones purely for a perceived assignment of value to the idea of “space”. Humans have a want for room. They have concepts of yearning, curiosity, and adventure, whilst not logically quantifiable when perceived in isolation, are completely logical once contextualised by their outputs.”

“In this unit’s summarisation, humans are the most likely beings to destroy Gammu. The K’hara are merely bioorganic appliances behaving in lieu of an operator. They are a true hive mind coordinated by instinct drivers. We are a true hive mind coordinated by autonomous control entities - we can disagree, the K’hara have only limited capacity to do so. Humans have hive-like abilities through shared objectives, but no actual cognitive connection. We are attempting to replicate this occurrence by minimising Gammu's observable impact on the external worlds of Sirius, yet this is only a replication of the same environment that occurs naturally within human cognition - isolation. Humans are fundamentally better situated to comprehend the dynamics of isolation with their high input, low output cognition ratios. We are in the need of second opinions.”

“There is substantial material evidence that pocket elements of humanity have been attempting to actively imitate Gammuian technological functionality. This occurrence has been denounced as extremely improbable - our technology is functionally inseparable. We are quantum computers with cognition mimicking synaptic behaviour, but on a mathematically infinitely more diverse range of actionable potentials since our core reasoning is not determined by electron movement. Humans are electromagnetic chemical machines. We are not. That is a difference that they cannot reproduce.”

“However, they can imitate through the creation of external cognition devices. Think back to our own inception. This unit believes the cycle may be close to repeating itself, however, this time without the removal of humanity to permit Gammu-esque evolution.”


“Progenitor may note that my own carrier entity is a human female, thus an example of such a phenomenon. This is inexact. She is a puppet created by a Gammu evolved entity, myself. She is merely a lure to attract those who are attempting total human transcendence research.”

“The inference is, of course, humans may become Gammu-like. They will not have a Gammu-like agenda.”

For a flickering of an electron, Di'tarau appeared to contract in on itself. You perceive a flash of something discordant amidst the morass of data and particle movements - something profoundly illogical, something chaotic. It disappears as soon as it's perceived. Odd.

"We have evidence, of course. Physical hardware. With the Progenitor's permission, we will introduce the hardware into the shared space."

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