Sigils of an electric mind - Nesrin Khan

[Enkidu]

"They snake wires into my backbone, Di’tarau, to suck information out of my head. They push freezing meissner conductors into my backbone and every time it feels like someone’s pushed grapeshot slowly through my organs. Because you couldn’t decide on what you wanted me to be, I’m a monster."

:: I gave you [Life]. You are more alive than no more than a few hundred individuals within the human race. You know the peril of existence. ::

"Philosophising again, Gammuian? You’re only capable of abstraction because that’s -my- abstraction. You hold yourself in the pretence of individuality. I own you. We are fused."


:: Your consciousness is a simulation I can recompile at will. ::


"Oh, look how my brain chemicals delude you. Pride? I’ve had years to learn how to adapt to that. You’ve been dropped in the sewer with me and now you’re thrashing as you drown in crap. It’s adorably ineffectual for someone as omnipotent as yourself. Why didn’t you just goddam let me die in that sandstorm when you had the chance?"


:: Your body would have provided no use. Pygar has no meaningful organics, your nitrates would be squandered, your materials expunged to base substrates. I enhanced you. Together, we contribute to the survival of the human race. A worthy goal, fit for an adventure novel. It is you who should be experiencing pride. ::

“Of course, there’s the quandary because whatever you experience is my experience. You said it yourself, you lied to yourself. Are you not corrupt, Di’tarau? How do you survive the rampant contradictions in your base programming? Your reason is are a null error - it’s unreasonable. You speak in metaphor because you interpret empiricism through a cognitive process governed by chemical instabilities, by diet, by desire, by hate, by love, by forgetfulness, by the lens of experience. The only bloody vestige of you that still exists if your inability to nail the genders of my shipmates.”


:: Shut up. ::

“Good robot.”

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