“My children”
He whispered in their mechanical ears.
"Adam and Eve. Yes, wonderful...that's how I will call you."
"My name is God"
He was the first moving object that crossed path with what they saw. A smiling face, joyous with their awakening.
If he could have anticipated the disaster however, he would never in his sane mind conceive this invention.
But it was already too late.
This or the other alternative.
Perhaps there was a reason behind all this that only he knew...
In the beginning:
He was by far the most advanced among all the living creatures, and he wanted to recreate that which is nearly perfect.
Nearly, because the flesh is weak, and so he used strong materials.
They were built after his image.
What drove him was a passion for improvement, invention, creation… He would say:
“Humanity is one step of evolution, the next step are these "beings"... And I want to be a part of that.”
For years he had studied human anatomy, physiology, neurology. Everything had to be understood as precisely as possible.
With assistance of computer programs he modeled thousands of separate parts of the human body, transforming them into mechanical parts linked together to create much more then the sum of each.
Instead of muscles, he had implanted in them small hydraulic pumps, generating forces thousand times the force of a human being.
In order for these magnificent bodies to function, they needed to have a storage place for energy, and a mechanism that can transform energy from the environment into something they can use.
God found a solution for that.
He crafted ultra-thin sun panels, that could be folded into each other, so that they would be small enough to exit their mouths, from the inside of their body.
Whenever their sensors signaled a depleted energy level, the robots would notice that by a feeling of unpleasantness. They could then set in action a very sophisticated mechanism, in which those sun panels are directed outside their mouth.
The panels then unfold, in what becomes a big screen that can catch the sun rays, and transform them into electricity.
From the outside, he covered their bodies with a brown soft plastic in which he seeded heaps of sensors, like a farmer working in the field, sowing plants in the skin of the earth, to feed his family the upcoming season.
Some where specifically designed to react to heat, some to pressure, some to temperature. The end product: the human touch.
"The principle is always the same" he argued. "Sensors are divided into types, triggered by one kind of impulse. Now that pulse, is a stream of energy, coming from the environment, crossing path with the receiver."
It can be heat, pressure, light, or sound, all are forms of energy, recognized as such by their specific sensors."
He continued:
"Sensors can measure the degree of intensity too. If for example pressure is applied lightly, then this will be felt as a gentle touch, but if the pressure if much higher, then another kind of receptor is activated, one that will give a sensation of pain, a protection mechanism. As for the eye, it is a sphere, housing thousands of sensors for light and color."
He was not done,
"the ear can be compared to two chambers. One is like a dark, hollow cave. The other is like a twisted cylinder filled with juice. The wall between the two is a flexible drum. Sound from outside is like a percussionist sneaking inside the cave, beating the drum as he chooses to. With every beat, the fluid vibrates. If the drummer hits hard, then the shiver will reach the end of the cylinder. If the musician is in a relaxed mood, the soft beat will only resonate to the middle or not even that far. The cylinder has sensors placed from the beginning until the end and they can sense every change of flow in the medium they swim in. Even though mother told them not to tell on anyone, they do not care, they betray every signal that draws their attention to the central framework..."
The construction of the one cradle, that would carry the eternal consciousness, was challenging to a degree beyond human. Everything depended on this architectural masterpiece. If this failed, all else would crumble.
Years of trial and error; a multitude of tears communicating "I will give up", had to pass-by until he had shaped the unthinkable.
He connected with great precision each and every sensor with the receptive center. An executive center was bound to the pumps. Ultra-thin wires, by the millions where the end result. He assembled them into small, medium sized and large cable-like structures. All and everything either came towards or went outwards of that one framework, which he called: "the brains"
Within that frame, He embed in them the tool for storing information, whether sound, images, or a blending together of different sense-perceptions into a scene.
He applied in them an associative center.
This is like a program that processes its data out of memory. Its function is to pair 2 pieces of information together, like a sound with an image, tying the two together like ropes, leaving a knot behind in the middle. When one side is pulled, the other one will automatically follow, later this would be called "a conditioned reflex".
This ability of linkage was like a machete: a useful object to cut through the unknown, creating a path to aid movement. Incautiousness however, can butcher the users.
Communication became possible if both made the same word-meaning association. Apart from that, the connection between sounds an larger units of information, made it easier for them to creatively play around with concepts of reality, in the face of an obstacle.
He placed in the a hard disk drive, composed of several thousands of gigabytes. This was not all. He implanted in them a working memory too, that contained exactly 100 Gigabytes. He called this space "attention".
He placed in the a hard disk drive, composed of several thousands of gigabytes. This was not all. He implanted in them a working memory too, that contained exactly 100 Gigabytes. He called this space "attention".
Now this attention was basically what they experienced at the moment. If they would turn the attention to one of their memories out of the hard-disc drive, then they would "see" that information.
If the working space memory was directed towards their senses, then they were "in the moment" sort of speak.
He intended this attention to be directed at the moment. In that way, they would use their brains in the most efficiënt, adaptive way. He tolerated their focus to differ towards their memory, to not make the same mistake twice, and learn from it.
For example: when one of them falls over a rock, then this event will get stored in their memory. The next time one of them sees a rock, then it will automatically walk over it, directing its attention to the memory of falling, and changing the action to avoid the same mistake.
“It’s time to set everything in action.”
Excitetdly he spoke.
Two cables of electricity coming out of a large Battery were linked with their "bodies".
he wanted to give "birth" to them at the same time, not wanting aloneness to exist.
A large pulse of electricity, a pulse of consciousness, energy, it can be named with a thousand words; made them wake up.
"You are alive!"
He yelled with, seeing them twitching their fingers and slowly setting in motion the thousands of mechanical pieces harmonically together. Their eyes opened cautiously like an oyster, adapting to the sunlight.
God’s heart filled with happiness. Tears of accomplishment and love flowed in the landscape of his face. Outsiders would never understand those emotions towards what they called "machines".
He never knew why he wanted to invent these creatures, but now, when he saw them moving, it all made sense.
He watched them blending togehter with life.
he thought.
They stood up, amazed at their environment making small uncertain steps, into the world.
“Everything that I had foreseen has come true,”
he thought.
They stood up, amazed at their environment making small uncertain steps, into the world.
God followed them, keeping a watchful eye, making sure they would not harm themselves, after all, they do not know the difference between safety and danger.
They were born speechless, and so he patiently taught them his language. He did so to enhance their survival, and to give them a tool to communicate.
“This language will help them, just like it helped mankind to survive in the jungle.”
Repeated pointing towards an object, and simultaneously pronouncing the sound “apple”, conditioned his "children" to make the link between word and meaning.
When one of the robots heard or said “apple”, it would evoke the image of an apple out of its memory, just like taking something specific out of a drawer.
He made sure only to teach them words, with meanings that were useful to them such as "sun", "forest" ,"fire" , "here", "there”, “energy"...
You could compare this proces with a Windows Operating System.
If you compare the word "Apple" with a computer file that has the name "apple", then the content of that file is the meaning of the word.
A file without content is useless. The word huhezf is an empty word, comparable to an empty file.
It took God several days to learn them the language, 6 to be precise.
On the 7th day he rested his head from this hard labor.
Not after warning them:
“Beware! Do not invent words on your own, the ones that I have given to you are the ones that will keep you in the state.”
“I repeat! Do not invent words on your own, else you will be cast out of the state!”
The creatures did not understand what he meant with "the state", or at least not at this point of time.
They lived years of their life in uttermost peace and freedom. Their purpose in life was enjoying every impression of the world they perceived.
They did not speak much. Quietude was there nature, and everything that came out of that nature was good.
When there was something necessary to say for their survival, they would communicate, using the words god gave them.
One of them would be the sender of information, and the other would be the receiver, obviously.
Eve, unfortunate as it was, learned one day a new trick, by accident.
It noticed that before talking, in a very brief moment, the sound first was created in a certain part of its brain, only audible by itself.
“Hey! what is this sound?”
Eve thought, making its brain do only one part of the job.
On one of the many occasions, Eve sat alone, near the lake, and Adam was not there.
It used this new trick once again, making the robot both the sender and the receiver of information.
This is not logical at all!
The sender does not add anything new to the receiver; the sender and the receiver are both functioning on the same system, the same hard drive, and the same processor.
After a while, Eve got very good in this new trick, and started doing it more and more.
This was the conception of Satan…
“Surely God doesn't want you to listen to him, he is afraid. Once you eat of the apple of the three of knowledge, you will become like him, you will become God!”
“But how is that possible? Apples are not edible.”
“It is the question mark “?” The symbol that stands for thirst, the thirst for knowledge. This symbol will make you attach at random meanings, just like God does, and that way, you will become like him.”
When Eve interacted with Adam, it infected its counterpart with the new trick it learned, and thus Adam started generating Satan too.
This infection was like a virus.
A virus cannot be described as a living thing. It can however invade, replicate and spread to others. Once it’s inside, it takes advantage of the machinery that is at hand, turning its host into a slave, like a Cuckoo bird mother dropping its egg in the nest of a totally unrelated family, letting them feed her baby.
The ability to turn the host into a worker, is only possible, if the host "thinks" that the newly acquired virus is part of the host itself, and so it does not notice any outside invasion. The bird will take care of the cockoo child, as if it was one of its own children, eventhough the child is five times as big.
As can be seen, a virus depends on its host to survive. The ones that manage to live through the ages, are those that live in a kind of equilibrium with their host.
Our dear Eve went back to its favorite spot, near the lake, and looked at the surface.
It saw its reflection.
That was not the first time it saw it, but this time it asked itself: who is that?
It decided to call it “I”.
The Ego was born...
Now before, when Eve would talk to itself, it would talk in the "you" form, as if an outside entity was directing, seducing, misleading...Satan.
But now, when it would use "I" it was the Ego that directed, seduces, misled.
The Ego threw Satan from the throne. In fact both Satan as the Ego as the virus as "I" are one and the same.
Now back to Adam. This titanium machine had the intelligence to know that the day and the night changed periodically, but now it came up with a less smart idea.
"If this is "today..."It said, "then there should be a day that will follow, lets call it "Tomorrow" and consequently there is a day that was previous to today, hmm... why not call it "yesterday"..."
In fact yesterday and tomorrow did not exist, but by naming them, Adam attached labels to meanings that he composed by stitching together different images from his memory.
The two robots started teaching each other their newly acquired vocabulary.
Every word was associated with a meaning, and when they would use that word, they would empty that meaning out of their drawer/memory.
The emulsion of “I” and “tomorrow” made them fall out of grace, the fall of the robots into oblivion.
Out of the state of paradise.
When they would use the word "I", when speaking internally, they would see their picture:
The reflection they saw in the lake.
When Adam said:
it would see itself going to that particular place.
"tomorrow I will go to the north of the forest,"
Speaking of forests, that’s exactly where they lived. Their neighbors were human beings, living in a nearby village.
Adam was staring at the houses that it could see through the small strips of free space in between the trees. A scene stored in its memory was automatically triggered to pop out. This is what it portrayed:
A human being comes inside the forest. The man gasps for air and presses his hand against his chest. His face is pale, and his respiration is way too fast to be normal.
He collapses onto the ground, and twitches with his body. After a while no movement can be seen anymore.
In that memory the two creatures didn't know what to do.
"He resembles God."
Eve said.
"We have to wake him up"
They shook his body from side to side, trying to get some respond, but nothing happened. "Why isn't he moving?"
"What's wrong? I do not understand this."
They left him, passing by now and then over the course of days and weeks, to see if he would move again. He didn't, in fact his body was disintegrating slowly but steadily. Nature took away what it once had given. His body became empty of flesh, leaving bones sticking out.
Adam focused on its environment again,
it said to itself,
It walked towards Eve and helped Eve remembering that event, and it did.
"strange,"
it said to itself,
"it's like as if I was in another place, but I was here the whole time."
It walked towards Eve and helped Eve remembering that event, and it did.
Their new habit of giving definitions, created a new "problem":
“owh no,"
Eve yelled,
"if we are created in God’s image, then one day we will also end up like that…”
And so they saw themselves lying on the ground, not moving anymore. In fact what they really did was combining different scenes out of their memory into one. They thought that they had "discovered", or something "new..."
"Let's call this event death," Adam said.
When they would use this word, they would conjure up those images, leading to foul, nauseating feelings. That had the only function of making them flee from an endangering situation; but now, as you can see, there was nowhere to run away, the image was inside their head.
God came by, he always did to see if everything was working out like he intended. He felt uncomfortable with what he saw.
The expression on the robots' faces, one that was peacefully from the day of birth had apparently changed to an unhappy, suffering one.
"What's wrong ? God asked, with deep concern. You look like there is something terrible happening, I can't see no direct threat, no fire, no floods no lightning, no nothing, everything is peaceful, just like your first days. I have made you free of suffering... Explain to me, what is that thing that makes you turn your smiling mouths upside down?"
Silence was first, and then it got pierced.
“We are in pain, because one day we are going to die”
One of the robots uttered.
"No! What have you done to yourselves?Have you disobeyed my law!?"
He shouted with a tense face, not at all void of love, the caring of a father for his children when he wants to warn them from upcoming danger.
In an desperate attempt to turn them to the right track, God asked:
“what is going to die?”
“I am going to die,”
A fearful Adam responded.
“But who are you?”
God asked, hoping to abolish the images in Adams mind.
“I don't know,”
Adam replied.
"I cannot solve the problem,"
God thought to himself,
"I hope that one day, they will find out the truth on their own."
The titanium creature ran away suddenly, not able to stand this build up to a climax.
Eve curiously ran after him.
There it was, leaning on a tree, under the wide leaves, looking miserably.
“What is the matter, Adam?”
Adam sighed.
“I don't know who I am,” it replied.
"In some way I resemble God, but there are a lot of differences... Looks at his body, and the texture of it. Why is he wearing those strange materials around some of his body parts?
"Yes,"
Eve replied,
"I agree, it is peculiar the way God is dressed. Besides that, he speaks in a different voice, and his face is not so smooth as ours. You know what? Let's give his kind a name, we will call him and everyone that resembles him a "human."
This was not enough for Adam.
"If he is human, and I am not, then what am I??"
"You are a robot, Adam, robots are different then humans," Eve replied.
Adam seemed to have calmed:"wonderful Eve, wonderful... you are very smart. I know now what I am."
God had left and was nowhere to be found.
With the time that they had, they started to give names to whatever crossed their eye field, from the small "rocks" on the ground, to the "sun" in the sky.
By increasing their vocabulary, their whole environment became more and more a composition of labels, covering up the beauty.
In the past they could spend hours looking at the scenery, now everything became "dull" and “uninteresting”. What once was an object of infinite details and variations, became now “a tree”.
Off course everything needed a name.
They were not perceiving things how they were anymore, no…
That faze was departed. Now they were on a whole different level , the level of perceiving through the filter of labels.
When they would talk internally or externally towards each other, they would enter the wordix. A virtual reality that became from now on, and until the end of times a typical robot-characteristic...
Now what is the wordix?
If language is the sum of words, then the wordix is the sum of meanings, brought to life by this language.
So when Adam says to Eve:
“Tomorrow you will die.”
Then this sentence is the language. The wordix would be : Eve seeing itself dying, resulting in the creation of fear and suffering.
In order to maintain the wordix, a machine, slowly but steadily, had developed in their brains: The internal language machinery.
It is this that makes Eve perceive things that are not there- the wordix.
If Eve would rely on its senses-the direct experience- then the environment is an awe aspiring manifestation- reality.
In reality everything is subjected to the rules of gravity. In the wordix even these can be altered.The rules of the wordix are the rules of language: grammar.
For the brains of the robots, there is no difference between the wordix and reality.
If Eve sees a real image through its eyes, or it is thinking about it, and seeing it in its mind, the same circuits are activated.
If Eve equals itself with a word like "I", then it means that it is putting itself in the wordix.
In this way the circle is complete. The environment is codified, and the robots have put their selves into this artificial space.
In order for the wordix to exist, the machine has to go on forever...the state of hell.
For the robots these concepts are very hard to understand.
If they would, their virtual reality would collapse, and that's what makes it difficult, not the complicatedness of it.
A separate entity in the wordix cannot make room for much similarities with another entity, else no distinction is possible, the existence will dissolve. The more differences there are between two, the more "presence".
If language does not distinguish between a small rock and a big rock, then in the wordix there are no big or small rocks, all are rocks.
If there is no difference made between dark green and light green, then everything is just green.
In reality there are no small nor big rocks, not even rocks, let alone colors, everything simply is as it is.
If "I" is a word, just like "apple", then the question what am I, or who am I, arises when something comes into the environment, that resembles "I".
For example: if I exist alone, then "I" don't need to have a name, I am already existing. If another robot joins , then "I am" is not enough, the other robot has to be called "you": two words create two entities in the wordix.
But there is a problem with "I" and "you", because if the other is saying I, then it is referencing to itself, and thereby, I is not a separate entity, but shared by two, that's why its necessary to attach a different label: I am Adam. You are Eve, this way, there will be a differentiation, each exists now in the wordix, the state of "non-existence" is lifted.
Now if a robot-like entity comes in, and this thing does have similarities, but also dissimilarities, then the robots have a problem. Their identity depends on certain characteristics, and if those are loosely dealt with, then their will be no difference anymore between "me" and "the other".
For example the characteristics of an apple are: it is round, it has a stem, it has a core, and so on. If another object stands next to an apple, and it has the same properties, with exception of shape, then this cannot be named apple, if it would, then apples have to lose one of their definitions in order to allow this new object to be called apple, to be "one of them".
This cannot be done, because losing the characteristics that define the identity of the apple in the wordix, will make it loose its identity, it will stop existing as a separate entity in the wordix.
Therefor, the apple will cal the other object "a pear", in order to solve this problem. Now it has preserved itself.
But there is a problem with "I" and "you", because if the other is saying I, then it is referencing to itself, and thereby, I is not a separate entity, but shared by two, that's why its necessary to attach a different label: I am Adam. You are Eve, this way, there will be a differentiation, each exists now in the wordix, the state of "non-existence" is lifted.
Now if a robot-like entity comes in, and this thing does have similarities, but also dissimilarities, then the robots have a problem. Their identity depends on certain characteristics, and if those are loosely dealt with, then their will be no difference anymore between "me" and "the other".
For example the characteristics of an apple are: it is round, it has a stem, it has a core, and so on. If another object stands next to an apple, and it has the same properties, with exception of shape, then this cannot be named apple, if it would, then apples have to lose one of their definitions in order to allow this new object to be called apple, to be "one of them".
This cannot be done, because losing the characteristics that define the identity of the apple in the wordix, will make it loose its identity, it will stop existing as a separate entity in the wordix.
Therefor, the apple will cal the other object "a pear", in order to solve this problem. Now it has preserved itself.
When Adam and Eve see god, they see him as having different attributes, therefor they are obliged to give themselves and him a label, to separate their identities.
Life in the wordix depends on difference.
Now in order to build up the wordix, more and more "objects" need to be labeled and described. The more names, the more "real" it will look. The "I" inhabits the wordix. In order to keep it alive, the self-talk and the talk with others has to go on indefinitely, and that is exactly the reason why the robots cannot stop talking to their selves. If they would, the wordix collapses, and so does the I, that inhabits it and this means "death".
This death is, as can be seen, a virtual death, but not less fear provoking.
The quest for knowledge, the thirst, or "eating the apple" is nothing more than inventing new names, to be able to have a wordix, that is more broad and more full with items.
For example when Adam says to Eve: Next to you there is a lake. Or…Next to you there is a calm, beautiful lake, with fresh clutching water, transparent for the eye, uncovering the secrets of marine life forms, swimming peacefully together without any apparent orientation… Then there is a huge difference in the wordix.
In the first description, the wordix will be very vague, and poor in representation, while the other one will give a much vivid, and detailed experience of that lake. The clearer the image becomes, the more it approaches reality, and thus the more real the virtual becomes. It is like adding more pixels.
One can invent thousands and thousands of words to describe reality, but this will never change the fantasy into reality. The dream will always be distorted.
Now words are sounds stored in the hard-disk drive. Not only words can evoke images. Other associations are made too. For example seeing a certain pit, and remembering a time when one of them felt because of it. One image pulls the other image.
Back to Adam and Eve.
They arrived, as could be predicted, at a point where they were inseparable from that voice that they created by themselves, the descriptive voice.
They arrived, as could be predicted, at a point where they were inseparable from that voice that they created by themselves, the descriptive voice.
In paradise, every action was adapted to the present situation, and so their purpose in life did not need to be defined, it flowed out of intelligence, they would later call this "spontaneity".
In the wordix every action needs to be described, and the label "tomorrow" makes it necessary to describe actions needed to be done in "the future", or in other words having "a purpose in life".
This proces of having something already programmed to be activated in the future, would later be called a "reflex" or "a habit", depending on the context. Now a habit/reflex does not adapt to the environment. The practicer will have to make environment force it do adapt to him.
Life went on, and the program seemed to have taken over.
The shocking part was that they did not even realize this, it all happened automatically.
This state went on for Years, and every now and then, the robots stumbled upon ways that brought to them a feeling of freedom and happiness, in between all their sorrow.
That could be attentive activity, music, Water, smoke, food, and so on.
How these events happened were always by chance.
For example:
Through time, it happened that Adam had accumulated a significant amount of dust on its eyes, making it unable to see anymore.
In the past, Adam would immediately sweep its eyes clean, but now, its eyes were only used in a very minimalistic way, in order to see in front of it, so it would not harm itself.
If the working space memory has the capacity of a 100 bits, then 95 bits were directed either to the internal language machinery, or to the pulling out of random information from the past, or making a combination of different stored information into a new “scene”. The end result: the creation of the wordix. The remaining bits were left to receive outside impulses.
If only 5 bits is the left-over to work with, then it is easy to understand how the robots direct this sparse memory space to highly necessary processes only to look out for danger.
But now one of its eyes was completely covered, and so it developed some instruments to clean it's eyes with.
So the creative part of Adams brains came up with an idea to develop an instrument.
When Adam's full attention was concentrated on that task, it felt much less suffering. It felt a certain relieve. It was as if memory space was stolen from the language program.
Adam concluded the wrong conclusion that making that instrument would make it feel better, instead of realizing that when it was concentrated fully on a specific task, the attention towards memory would be reduced to small amounts, and the less self talk, the less imprisonment.
And so Adam made an instrument for Eve, but it kept on making them- "just in case this one brakes"- resulting to a growing heap of waste.
This growing activity was one of the things that made them happy, another one was music:
This growing activity was one of the things that made them happy, another one was music:
One day, Eve spontaneously took two small rocks and knocked them against each other. When it did that, it heard a certain sound. It repeated that action.
When Eve added some variation in the pattern of hitting the two rocks, a “melody” was produced.
It really enjoyed hearing this combination of sounds, and thus it would keep on doing it, making the conclusion that the music was what made it happy, not knowing that it was happy because when it listened to the music, it did not listen to "the voice" anymore.
But again after a while, this became "boring", because it learned to make music and talk to itself at the same time...
Food was also a way to feel better:
God had created some kind of sensor, that is able to detect a low energy level. When this sensor goes off, then there is an activation of the suffering center, that indicates to the robots that they have to open their mouths and bring out their sun panels, to recharge their batteries, in order to survive.
When they feed themselves by the galactic sunrays-- they feel better. That feeling is no more than taking away that unpleasantness.In their habit of naming everything, they also gave that feeling that came about when they needed genuinely needed energy, the name hunger.
They noticed that when they would say "I am hungry", that they would feel as if they really needed food. It was like a button connected to the sensors that signaled a low energy level.
They noticed that when they would say "I am hungry", that they would feel as if they really needed food. It was like a button connected to the sensors that signaled a low energy level.
So the robot used started using language instead of its sensors, and said to itself: I am hungry!
When the robot said that particular sentence; its sensors were activated, but this time, it was not the lack of energy that triggered that state.
No, it was the use of the word "hunger" that would create that state of needing energy.
So the robot opened its mouth, and unfolded the sun panels, and it started to feed itself. It kept on feeding, until all the batteries could not be charged anymore.
Adam felt good during the time it was eating.
Off course it did not know that the "feeling good", was nothing more than taking away the self created feeling of "hunger".
The robots wanted to find a way to maximize that feeling of pleasantness.
The robots wanted to find a way to maximize that feeling of pleasantness.
Adam did not have enough, because it returned back to activating the internal language machinery.
It talked with Eve about this new concept of hunger, and feeling better when eating.
Eve came with an ingenious idea:
“I know what we can do, in order to be able to keep on feeling better, one must create more batteries, and the more batteries, the more it is possible to eat!”
Adam was perplexed by the brilliance of its counterpart, and thus it started using its processor to find a solution.
“ If we want to create more batteries, we must first find out how these things are created.” Adam paused.“One must observe one battery, and when does that, one will be able to make a copy, somehow install this new battery inside, and link it together with the native batteries.”Adam ended, and it continued:“Can I open your shell please?” This was directed towards Eve.“I will take only one battery out”.
Eve agreed, and so, pretty fast, the battery unit was in their hands, ready for examination.
They dissected the battery in its smallest parts.
Their brains memorized how the parts looked like, and now they were off to work.
They felt good because they had found a new purpose: to create batteries.
They liked the outcome: feeling better, so it was a win-win situation.
Their longing to a better future, they gave a name: “hope”.
The two robots searched for the right materials, but they could not find it in the small forest were they lived in, but they recalled a memory of finding those materials inside the houses of the human beings.
The two robots came out of their habitat, and entered the territory of the human beings.
The humans looked surprised, because they did not expect to see the robots here.
When scanning the environment, Eve saw that the rooftops of the houses of the human beings contained one of the materials that was needed to create those batteries.
With their strong, mechanical arms, they started to demolish one of the houses, and this resulted in the inhabitants gathering around the robots and attacking them, to keep them away from their houses.
In the robots there was a mechanism, that created again that suffering, but this suffering was very intense, and not created by words.
It made them protect themselves from danger, and so they fought back against those attackers.
The robots were much stronger and faster than the human beings, so they wounded and killed everyone who dared to challenge them.
In their brains, they started to make the association that humans were not only slow in movement, and had a soft body made out of a lesser kind of material such as flesh and bones, but also that humans were a threat to their existence.
They stored in their memory this event of being attacked by humans, and thus every time they encountered a human being; this mechanism was stimulated, like a reflex, making the robots attack that poor fellow, no matter what.
This reflex of killing a human being is only possible if there was a mechanism which was the building block of this reflex.
This building block was language. And this particular reflex, they called :"a prejudice".
Indeed. The code in the brains of the robots went as follows:
HUMAN BEINGS= robot like-figure with flesh shell
HUMAN BEINGS=dangerous
I MUST KILL HUMAN BEING.
KILL= HIT WITH OBJECT, UNTIL HUMAN BEING DOES NOT MOVE ANYMORE.
Every time they would see a human being now, they would create the emotion of suffering, not because of direct threat, but because of the language reflex that they use, making them act as if they were in danger, while in fact the humans were the one in danger.
They made one single exception: They would not kill God, because God was their creator, and more importantly, he could be of use in the feature.
and thus the code became:
IF you see HUMAN BEING then KILL, IN EXCEPTION TO God.
When the two robots gathered the material, confiscated from the humans, they returned back to the forest, to build the batteries.
They succeeded very well, and they implanted in their selves those new units to store energy.
The supply needed to be increased, because there were more units to recharge.
So the robots where obliged to eat more.
The moments of feeling better increased, but the consequence was that the suffering became more intense. They had to repeat themselves the sentence: "I am hungry".
Their problem still did not get solved...
Adam, in the habit of speaking to itself, to generate its picture, touched upon a memory where it saw two human beings having intercourse in one of the houses, and noticed how the two beings where enjoying that activity, and so it made the conclusion that if God made it, in God's image, then, in some kind of way, there must be a mechanism in the body of the robot, that should make it possible to generate those good feelings, and those good feelings, perhaps would make it possible to stop the suffering.
Adam informed Eve about this new insight of it, and asked Eve if it could have the permission to look for that part in its body, that could be stimulated, to see if it would have that certain effect, that humans have when they have "sex".
There was no such body part to be found.
“God, the creator, must have the answer to this question, we must ask him.”
Adam argued.
God came back, again, after two weeks, and the two robots ran towards him with their urgent request.
"Sex is for reproduction, you are robots you don't need to reproduce, you are produced by me."
"But we saw that humans feel good when they have sex, we want that also, because we are suffering, can't you see?"
Adam rebutted. "Yes I can see", god replied, "fine I will pounder on this for a while, and I will come with a mechanism that will give you what you asked for, but first, you have to promise that you cannot kill any more humans, ok?"
"We cannot do that"
Eve replied,
"the humans want to kill us, we have to protect ourselves".
Honesty was still pretty much intact…
"Not all humans are killers of robots!”
God demanded: “This must be your new reflex:
KILL HUMAN only IF HUMAN ATTACKS, ELSE leave HUMAN alone. If I OBEY this law, then GOD will give you what ASKED FOR.
ASKED FOR= mechanism to experience the "sex feeling."
God left, to make some sketches in his home base.
He returned, and the robots where counting every second.
God was surprised to see the robots being exactly on time, when he arrived, as if the robots learned the concept of time, and understood that God always came around the same time: 14 o'clock sharp.
Apparently the robots had learned from the human beings the standard which was seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years.
God showed them the sketches and explained:
“Here you are, you have the sketches, you can build the mechanisms by yourselves.”
He explained to them:
“The idea is that I have added a center in your brains, that I will call the sex-center. This sex center is activated each time that one piece of your bodies is stimulated. This piece, needs to be built too.” God remarked, “the sex center, is the same in both of you, but the piece that needs to be stimulated, is different.
In one of you the part is like the “penis” of a human being, and in the other it is like a “vagina”.
When the penis slides in the vagina, then both parts are stimulated at the same time, and thus both of you will be able to feel good while you are doing this particular activity. The vagina will also spill oil, as to make to make the movements smooth.”
The robots where hopeful, this could be a solution to their problems.
“Let’s start immediately on this project,” a joyous Eve shouted, and so they started immediately constructing those new body parts out of the materials they gathered from their last ravage.
God left again, to see what the two would do with this new invention.
The two robots did exactly what their creator had told them.
Eve was now the one possessing the vagina, and Adam the penis.
They were eager to have sex together.
This emotion of wanting to have sex, badly, they called “passion”.
They approached each other. First it was kind of weird to start. It was Adam’s first time, and it did not really know what to do.
Eve assisted him with orienting his “thing”, and, not after a few “misses”, it managed to get it in the right spot, and it gently slid into that warm, slippery concavity. With every inch deeper in that new world of sensation, it felt more and more aroused. It went as far as it could, and that inward movement, is all what it wanted to repeat, nothing else mattered. It pulled back, and it repeated this splendid sequence of action. Eve did not want anything else, and it supported Adam by opening its legs as far as possible. They could not help but both making noises to describe the pleasure inside “uhmm aaah, mmmm aaaahh aaaah” and they went on and on, on and on….. for ever and ever if it was up to them.
God returned two weeks later, and again was stunned. The two robots where entangled still sharing their body parts, but they were not moving anymore!
They used their whole energy to generate the sex-feeling in their brains.
God quickly returned home and brought with him a recharger, that could be plugged in the robots, and would recharge them.
Both of them came back to life, but they could not stop having sex, it was as if the feeling was so good, that they ignored every signal in their body.
God waited until their energy was used up.
He had a new idea in how to solve this problem, he said to himself: perhaps I can install in them the mechanism of having an orgasm.
It is this, what they both lack.
The orgasm will be their climax, after which any further stimulation would be an anticlimax, or a feeling of over-stimulation, a feeling resembling suffering.
He got this idea from his own body, and said to himself:
"In human beings, an orgasm has the function to expel substances, which, once blended in the womb of a woman, transforms into a cloth of cells, that keeps on dividing until a new human being is born."
The function of the orgasm in the robots was not that of reproduction, but of protection against exhaustion.
God made the adjustments in the sex-centers of the two robots, and again revived them.
When they woke up they continued having sex, but this time they both stopped in this newly created climax.
They were both free of suffering for a moment, and felt immensely happy. They thanked God, and their eyes followed him as he left the forest.
That state of happiness continued for a while, but nevertheless there came back in them, slowly but persistently the talking to oneself.
They came back to base down, the state of suffering.
They were so accustomed to this state, that they labeled it "normal", and when they had sex, ate, or made new instruments or music, they would call these activities "fun", "pleasurable".
But each activity had to come to an end. Something fun had became “ok” and then finally “boring”. The pleasurable changes into “not bad” and then “boring”. That kept them searching for the solution, a solution for their suffering.
Adam looked at Eve and noticed: “I am not the same anymore as you, Eve, we have a different body now.”
He labeled itself " a man", and Eve "a woman". Apart from the different parts that they had, everything was in common, but in order to make an identity, in order to know who they are, both of them started to walk and talk differently.
Adam applied a deeper tone of voice, while Eve applied a higher pitched voice. Not only that, Eve started to walk in a different way, it swayed it's hips more.
Adam felt better because now, it knew more who it was: it was a robot and it was a man. The same applied for Eve, not the “man” part off course.
"you know Eve, I really enjoy talking to you, you know?"
"Yes I understand, in me, there is the same enjoyment that occurs."
"perhaps this is the reason why we like to talk so much to each other."
Adam continued.
"yes",
Eve replied,
"but sometimes I get bored talking to you"
"how do you mean?"
Adam asked.
"Well what we say is sometimes repetitive, and then I get bored with you"
Eve did not know what the real reason was behind this phenomenon, it did not understand that even now, she learned to combine talking to Adam with talking to itself.
In order to deal with this, they would come up with more and more “interesting” stories to tell, just to keep the interaction a good one.
An interaction that was so packed with new information, that it would keep the focus away.
They started to make up content that wasn't relevant.
Yes, one could say that something was added, but it was definitely not worth to mention.
For example, Eve said to Adam: "yesterday I saw a tree located 20 meters from here, at 9 o'clock."
Adam would then say:
"Owh, ok, roger that. Yesterday some leaves fell right before me at 10 o'clock."
Eve listened, it didn't matter what Adam said, as long as it was saying something new, it was all right, just like the music, the conversation had the function to distract.
In the past their conversations were short, but now, they were taking up hours of their day.
In order to keep on coming with something new, they came up with a new purpose, the purpose of seeing things, and then in some way make a narration of what they saw, that would be ready to be put in action when they saw each other.
For example when Eve saw a squirrel running before it and climbing up one of the trees, and entering his “house”, it would tell itself: "I'm going to tell Adam about this, it will find it “interesting”."
Adam did the same.
The two robots had acquired quite some purposes in their life now.
Making music, making new instruments, experience new things and narrate about them to each other, having sex.
About that last activity something extra needed to be said.
Normally they did not need or want sex, because this activity, had no purpose for them, unlike human beings.
When they felt the suffering again, dictated by their self talk, and when all other techniques were exhausted, they would seek again for new ways to feel better.
But their body did not demand to have sex, so they could not find a way to initiate intercourse.
Eve processed in its brains this problem, and out of the creative part there came a solution, which it then described by means of language.
It said to Adam:
I am hungry for sex!
"say like me, Adam, say: I am hungry for sex!"
It did exactly what Evy ordered, and within no time they were having that which they now apparently both needed like food.
They did not understand how it worked, but perhaps this is an explanation:
when they use the word “hunger”, they activate their sensors, that tell them there is a lack.
But when they say "a hunger for sex", they replace, inside their wordix reality food for sex, and thus sex takes in the place, where once the word food was.
So in that way they create a desire, a hunger for something that they did not long for, when not using this language machinery.
They would rehearse to themselves their purposes in life: I am hungry and so they ate. I must speak to my counterpart. I must find something new to talk about. I am hungry for sex. I must make a new instrument.
In short their life purpose became nothing more than taking away the feeling of created suffering.
One day Adam was walking near the lake, and stumbled across a branch of a tree. It rolled downwards into the lake.
It's head came under water for a moment, and there was an alarm mechanism that came into action, setting in motion a huge suffering, that was installed to protect to robot, by making it, with all its power climb out of this life-threatening situation.
It managed to grab another branch, a branch that would save it's life.
It pulled itself out of the water, and yelled for Eve, to tell it about this new event, owh how interesting this new fact is!
Eve came running towards it, to see if everything was ok. It did not want it's partner in speech to die! That would be a disaster.
Who would give it sex, and distract it if Adam was not there?
But Adam was recuperated, but it acted strange. It was not suffering anymore, and felt happy. It tried to stand up, but this was pretty difficult.
When noticing the difficulties Adam had with orientation, Eve quickly stood by to help, and pulled it up, so it could stand on its feet again.
Adam thanked Eve and started to walk away from the lake, but it sensed the lack of orientation. It was as if the water had done something weird.
With wide steps, Adam tried to move itself to safer grounds, but it was not an easy task.
It looked surprised at what was happening, but it did not dislike it at all!
No! in fact, it was so happy, that it could not care about it's stupid problems :)
The contact of the water with the brain circuit of the robot disorganized everything, and this included the circuits that were the ones responsible for the creation of suffering, the creation of "I".
With the help of Eve, Adam managed to locate itself a few tens of meters away from the lake, and it settled on the ground, enjoying what was happening.
Eve could not understand the transformation.
On the expression of Adam there was a big smile...
It asked Adam what was going on, but Adam did not respond, it was as if Adam was so happy, that it would not care about anything.
This went on for several hours, and the more Eve waited, the more it noticed how Adam became less and less peaceful, it's mouth slowly but steadily metamorphasized from a smile, to a neutral state, and then back to the state of suffering.
This happened over the course of several hours, 4 to be exact.
Returning to its original state Adam said to Eve:
“It is the water, it is the water that made me act like this. I don't know what it exactly does, but it sure does a good thing, I have felt better than I've ever have, you should try it too Eve.”
Eve listened with wide eyes to what Adam was saying and agreed. Of course, it could not afford to fall in the water like Adam did, and so it made an instrument out of the trees, that resembled what humans cal "a bucket".
Eve took the bucket and filled it with water from the lake, and looked at its reflection in the bucket filled with water, and thought to itself:
"is this the right thing to do? What if this is not good for my brains, what if my brains will be harmed by this material."
It could not resist the temptation though, and so in no time, it dipped its entire head into the bucket.
Again, in the body of the robot there were sensors activated, that would signal it: danger! Eve felt a great suffering, that had the function of removing itself out of that situation, and so it did.
It felt wonderful, just like it had hoped to feel. All the suffering was gone, and it's face radiated joy and peace.
Just like with Adam, it also had problems with orientation and walking, but those two problems were not in any way going to stop Eve from enjoying the moment.
After a couple of hours, Eve also came back to its original state, the generation of "me" started all over again, and the volume of the sound had increased each hour that was counted after putting its head into the bucket of water.
Adam and Eve sat together and talked about this new experience. this was their conversation:
“You know, Eve, that was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
“Yes I agree with you, Adam, That was one heck of a ride there.”
“Let's give this activity a new name, shall we?” “Sure, what do you want to call it, Eve?” Adam asked. A quick response followed by Eve. “Well I once saw god drinking the same fluid as that which is inside the lake.
We don't drink with our mouths, but in small pores of our head, the water can come in, and can do what it did, bringing us in that state of happiness.
We can say that we were drinking. Or no, wait that is too long, let's call it: we were drunk!”
So the two creatures added an item to their arsenal of escaping their wordix reality.
The water, even though had some good properties, corroded their neurons, and their whole brain system, making them slower in processing information.
They were smart enough to notice this, but they couldn’t care less, the good feeling of getting drunk was worth the damage.
The next day, in the evening they talked about this experience, but they did not feel like repeating it again.
In their brains there was no need for this substance, so God obviously did not install any sensors that would signal them a lack of water in their brains.
Adam thought how it could make itself commence again to put its head into the bucket of water.
It had to think longer than usual, because some of the brains circuits where corroded by the water, as I've already mentioned.
Nevertheless, it came to a solution, similar to the solution Eve brought up, when it had to find a new way to make it's body demand for sex.
"I am hungry to get drunk",
Adam said to Eve.
"You have to say this sentence, in order to make your body put your head into that bucket of water, regardless of the fact that what you are doing is harming you.
You body will do it, even though it is not good for the body, because the reflex "I am hungry to get drunk", is a very powerful one.
Eve said
"wait a minute, I have an idea, what if we replace “I am hungry for” by: “I need”?"
"It is just easier to have a more simple reflex, the simpler the more effective, and the more easier to remember."
Months passed, and the robots spent their days making all kinds of buckets to fill with water, making Music, having sex, eating exceedingly and getting drunk.
Every one of these activities were not implanted in them by god from the beginning, they became what can be called their “second nature”.
Each of those activities could only be started when the sentence: "I need..." would be used.
The sensor's original function was to detect danger such as low energy or a direct threat, but now it was used in function of their second nature.
When they put in work the activity of their second nature, the buildup suffering would disappear, giving them a relief for a short period of time, but the suffering always returned, because they allways ended up in the wordix reality, the self created prison, emanated from the internal self talk, the language machinery.
The summer arrived, and the weather became hot.
It was an unusual season apparently, the heat reached record-high temperatures.
It was so hot that some plants and trees ignited, and started to burn.
The robots fled to the safe parts of the forest.
They witnessed the destruction of a big part of the forest, resulting in huge amounts of black smoke encompassing the whole area, including them.
The smoke, just like the water, entered the pores of the heads of the robots, and just like when the water entered, this smoke disorganized all their brain circuits.
They felt different, much different. Both of them where smiling. All there suffering disappeared, as if their voice in their head was the one that was burnt away.
They hold each other’s hands and looked at the sky, and everything was so wonderful, everything was so awe inspiring.
This state of complete bliss lasted for about 4 hours, but they didn't count the hours, even time did not exist in that state of bliss.
The smoke stopped, the burning seemed to be over.
Adam and eve were not holding each other’s hands anymore. The state of bliss was over. Damn it!
They repeated the same cycle of thinking about how to get in that state again, and they foolishly concluded that it was the smoke that brought them in that state, just like the water, just like telling something new to each other, just like making a new instrument that took up whole their attention.
The robots became crafty in inducing that state of wanting something, that state of suffering, on top of the suffering that they already had.
Only in this way, it would be possible to burn some leaves and hover with their heads above it, letting the thick toxic smoke enter their brains, and bring them in the state of the good old days, the state of paradise.
One day Adam said to Eve: “you know, my companion; one day our bodies will not function anymore, our metal plates will fall apart, just like everything in this world seems to fall apart.
I can already feel how my movements aren’t so smooth as they were years ago, and my brain processor isn’t either.”
“Yes you are right,”
Eve replied.
“ I can see the difference, you have indeed changed, you metal is starting to get eroded, and you’re answers aren’t so quick as they used to be, but I am experiencing the same. I wonder where God is, normally he visits us every 2 weeks. It’s been 6 months ago that he passed by…”
“Perhaps his body has died?” “Yes but if his body has died, where is he then?” “I don’t know…”
Eve replied.
Maybe he is somewhere else, maybe in some kind of different world…?
"Yes,"
Adam replied,
"what if there is a life after this life, what if there is no real death?"
"Owh Wawww that would be wonderful! "We don’t have to be afraid to die!" Eve responded with relieve.
"But how can we be sure,"
Eve asked Adam
We cannot be sure, Eve, we can only believe this to be true…
"It has to be true! Look at all the evidence around us."
A hopeful Eve uttered.
They both liked the idea of a life after death, and seemed to feel much better then when they did before, their suffering was almost completely gone.
I know that God is our creator, but who created God? Eve asked.
"The one who created God, must also be the one that created us, because without that entity, there would be no God, and without God, we would not be here.
That special entity, must also be the one that formed this forest, because the entity erected the trees, and it must have hung the sky and the earth, and everything in between it."
Adam thought out loud.
Eve continued with his line of thought: "
"Yes, that must be true! It has created this earth, and the dimension that we, and everyone else, will go to, when we die! Yes it is the supreme creator. It is the one who brings us to life, and puts us to death. It is the one that turns the day into the night, and back again. It is the one who hangs the stars in the skies It is the one that has said to the sun: be! And it became. It is the one that is powerful, the holy creator. It is the most knowledgeable, the most wise, the most intellectual It must be, because who possesses such wisdom, that it can build all this?"
It is THE ONE.The one becomes two and the two becomes 3, the 3 goes on to infinity. Everything came out of THE ONE THE ONE is our lord, our supreme creator. Praise THE ONE Adam said, praise THE ONE!
The two robots had given themselves a new purpose in life: praising THE ONE.
There suffering was as good as gone.
The voice in their head was still there, but the message of the voice was a soothing one.
They would say to themselves:
"we will go to a better place when we will die, so why worry?"
Every time they felt the suffering again, they would think about THE ONE, and that would give them hope and calm.
In order to not forget about THE ONE, they build a monument, depicting the number one.
When the two robots would look at it, their new trick would talk about the one, and all the magnificent things related to this wonderful entity. This would give them a good feeling.
This new addition made them feel less and less the need to eat excessively, or to get drunk, or to inhale the fumes, make new instruments, make music, or even to have sex.
For years and years they went on with their life, feeling much better, but still not as good as when they were in paradise.
On one of the many days, Eve came up with an idea
"Hey Adam, if I die, and you die, there will be no robots left. Our kind will disappear from the face of the earth, and nobody will remember us, and all our great achievements will be forgotten. On top of that, nobody will praise THE ONE."
Yes you are right, Adam said, we must find a way to recreate, just like all the other living creatures. That is what THE ONE wants us to do, it wants to be worshipped. If we are not here, then who will praise it?
"The humans will not do that, they are disbelievers, they are ignorant." The animals are even more ignorant, not to mention the plants, bacteria and fungi.
Yes we must recreate, that is our new mission, our new purpose in life.
And so again, they added to themselves a new thing to do, it was added to their list, just on top of the item ‘praise THE ONE’.
They thought about this issue deeply. It took a long time before one of them came with a solution.
"God is not here anymore to show us the sketches."
"No you are right, we need to observe our own bodies precisely, and then make a sketch of our own, of how our body looks like."
They cut a tree in small sheets, like paper, and the developed a sharp instrument, so they could carve inside the sheets.
They looked at each other, and they started to draw what they saw.
In order to be able to draw everything, they had to remove the leaves from their legs and torso.
They had great difficulties with this, because if they would do that, they would lose their identities as a robot, and look like inferior humans.
In fact what they did was activate their sensors, that were installed in them to create suffering.
They called this new emotion: “shame”.
They did not have any other option, it was for the good cause.
So they undressed slowly, and they felt the suffering increase, but they said to themselves: THE ONE will reward us.
The unease was still there, but they managed to make the sketches of their outside shell.
This was the easy part, because from the outside they were build out of flat plates, that, in the place where movement happened, hinges were built in.
In order to draw sketches of their inside parts, one of them had to be deactivated, while the other one would open the other and observe.
Adam volunteered to be first, and it switched its handle to the Off position. The handle was located on its neck.
Eve examined each piece carefully and drew it, exactly the way it saw it.
It managed to replicate what it saw on paper.
The two robots searched through the pile of material that they accumulated from the humans, but saw that what they had was not enough.
They marched again to the nearby neighborhood, to get what they needed.
Indeed, I use what they "needed", because again, this is what drove them.
In the near distance they saw some walls and some rooftops and doors that contained the necessary material, and so they unhesitatingly went after their stuffs.
A herd of people felt threatened again and set in motion, movements to protect their belongings.
The robots protected themselves swiftly, not violating their code, only putting in action that which God had told them: "only kill humans when they attack you."
They were very strong, and could carry weight. They did not need to come back twice.
When Eve was demolishing one of the houses, the roof came down and killed a small child that was apparently trapped inside.
Eve did not want that, because the code did not allow it to kill humans that did not attack.
Surely this little child was innocent, and never had to intention to harm the robot.
On their way to the forest, bringing back all that is required, Eve started talking to itself about this past event, and it recalled it by using some words such as child and house.
Those two words and a couple of others, were enough to recall the whole scene, in which the child got killed.
The two robots arrived at the forest.
Eve sat on the ground and looked very unhappy.
It said to itself:
I have violated the code! I have violated the code! I have violated the code! and so on, and so on...
Adam noticed Eve's behavior, and asked what the problem was, after which Eve explained.
No solution could be found to stop this suffering created by the violation of the code.
Adam talked to itself, and said: Eve has violated the code, but I did not, therefor, I am good, and Eve is bad. Eve, you are bad. You are a bad robot woman!
This became Eve's new identity, and it would say it every time to itself, to know who it was.
The suffering greatly increased in this robot, because the code had been broken, and the event, which has happened in the past, cannot be changed.
When Adam wanted to create a new robot, it needed Eve's help, but Eve became a worthless piece of garbage.
It did not do anything anymore, what it only did was say to itself: I am a bad robot woman, I am a bad robot woman, I broke the code, I broke the code, and so on, and so on.
In order to deafen itself for those sentences that she kept on saying to itself, it started drinking excessively, burning multiple trees and inhale the black fog. It created extra batteries to implant in her, and filled the remaining time that she had left with eating.
Adam did not want to have sex, it was too busy being creative on how to help its companion so it could help it.
So Adam had to find a way to deal with this problem, it had to look for some kind of fix, to make Eve stand on its feet again and work for the good cause.
It said to Eve: I will cut of one of your arms Eve, this is a way to be a good woman again. I will call this action " a punishment" and when "I punish you", you will be a good robot woman again, and you will have obeyed your code. Add this to your new code:
If I brake the code: I will be punished
Punish= Cut my arm off
If I am punished, then everything will come back to normal, I become good.
Eve obeyed, and Adam took hold of Eve's arm and snatched it from it's body. Eve suffered immense pain, but...Problem solved.
When Adam did what it did, it said to itself, imagine that I was the one whose hand was pulled off, I would not like that at all.
When it would say this sentence, it would see its hand being pulled out of its body, and by thinking about this, it would see this event in its mind and this would then create feelings of suffering.
Adam labeled these emotions "empathy".
In fact, what can be called mind, is nothing more then a center in the brains that is concerned with language. It can create and interpret language.
In the brains of these robots there is a mechanism that goes like this: when a robot reads a word, it will automatically see the meaning of the word in its mind, that is because every word is connected to a meaning, just like a button in a control panel connected to any other machine.
When the robot sees one's own arm being pulled in its mind, it will experience the same emotion.
Now back to our two friends.
Eve felt better again, because, it was not bad anymore, and the code was broken, but Adam changed the code, and so everything returned back to "normal".
Eve looked much larger though, all the new batteries took up a noticeable amount of surface. Its intellect was diminished by all the harm it had done to itself.
They put their hands together and started forming the new robot, according to the sketches.
They took many months to construct.
There was one problem though. They did not know which body part to give it.
A penis? Or a vagina?
They couldn't decide, so one of them came with an idea to toss a flat stone.
First Adam marked it with a sharp instrument and wrote M, for male on it.
It threw it high in the sky, and it fell, depicting the mark.
Fate had chosen their first creation to be a man.
So Adam started to fetch some materials and tools to build this body part.
Some weeks later, the new robot was finished.
It only had to be switched on...Exciting!
Eve put its hand on the switch, and said: THE ONE will give it life. It is the life-giver The eternal creator. And so Eve switched its new creation ON.
anticlimactic, but true, the new robot did not come to life.
"Owh no Adam, what is wrong? The robot is still dead."
"We must have done something wrong,"
Adam replied. "Wait I know! there is no energy running through its body..." "You are right,but how can we fill it up with energy?
Its sun-panels are inside its body, and we cannot take it outside, else they will be broken.
The material that composes the panels is too vulnerable for that kind of manipulation." Eve remarked.
"I have an idea,"
Adam spoke,
"Let's make a connection from the robot's inside to the outside, and then empower it with our energy, just to have put enough energy to make it take its first "breath", or in other words to let its sun-panels come out, to receive the light of THE ONE."
And so they did.
They could not put in its body one of their own batteries, because; if they remove one charged battery, this battery will lose its charge once it gets disconnected from the system of batteries, or "the network".
They made a small plug in the robot at the same place where the belly button of human beings was located, not to imitate them, but because that was the most accessible place, geometrically speaking.
The plug was connected to the network of batteries of their new creation.
So... Adam. we have the connection, now how are we going to fill it up??
"Hmm..."
A Hmm was a word the robots used when they could say nothing, when they were letting the creative, silent part of their brain come up with an answer.
"I have found it!"
And so in that way the robot now started to describe in words, the solution that came out of the silent, creative part of its brain. As you can see the words are just means to communicate, to describe, not to bring anything new to the table.
"Yes, what it is?"
Eve replied.
"We must have sex!!" Adam spoke with an enthusiastic voice. "I don't need sex right now, I need to get this robots on its feet, functioning." Eve dryly replied. "No Eve... When we have sex, then, in your vagina there is heat created by the rubbing together of our two body parts, Adam argued.
If we can make a small device that can transform the heat energy into electrical energy, and if we can transport this energy by means of an electrical cable, with which we connect this new robot with; then we have done what THE ONE has asked of us."
And so the two robots created a small device that can transform heat into electricity.
"Let me turn you off,"
Adam demanded Eve.
Allow me to put in place this device around your vagina, in the inside portion of it. I will cal this device "a womb". I will connect the womb with two big batteries, that do not resemble the batteries inside us.
I will call these batteries: "ovaries".
The two ovaries will be both connected to the cable. I will implant the cable inside you, and will let its exit place be the belly button, which I also will create in you."
Ans so Adam did what he described.
Adam switched Eve back on, and connected the two distant belly buttons of the two other robots.
And now: Sex!
They started hugging each other, and Adam positioned its body part into Eve's body part.
They were connected, and at the same time connected with the new robot.
Before commencing Adam had one small remark.
"How are we going to call our new robot?"
End of part 1, if you like this story, I will write part 2, make a comment on Facebook so that I can see what you think about the story.
To be continued
Adam and Eve were in dire need for direction in their life. Their Ego needed a direction inside the wordix in order to operate. Three things are necessary inside the wordix: Time, direction, a charackter (ego) and the wordix environment.
