The Nonduality
H'leh [Character 8.01]
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Species: Wetware Race: Eridanian Generation: 3rd Starting Location: On the ship The Nonduality, traveling through the deep interstellar void. Props: None |
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Your story
This is the most fascinating discovery that you've been witness to in at least three centuries ‐ and you're the one who figured it out! You smiled briefly with the pride of a difficult logical task completed. Then your mind wandered into how you would tell the story to your sibling, and you were instantly transported back to reality. Eshala is dead. It still doesn't quite feel real. Hours ago you were having breakfast with your sibling, and now you won't get to hug them ever again.
You're certain that they would want to be part of this grand experiment. They were adventurous, a true explorer. Exploring what it means to be conscious would be a new horizon to them. You're sure that they would have been the first to volunteer to form a composite virtual consciousness.
And you want to be right by their side. You've always admired your older sibling, tried to live up to their example. The idea of merging with them is strange to be sure, but it seems incredibly interesting and deeply comforting. You never fully felt that they understood you while they were alive. What an amazing chance, to be able to so completely understand each other after your physical bodies are gone.
The only thing that gives you pause is the fact that you will also be merging with Source. The ship's "AI" has always felt foreign to you, distant and cold. Additionally, it is much older than both of you, and made up of many consciousnesses. What if it was too dissimilar, too dissonant? Or worse yet, what if it simply subsumed the two of you?
For this reason, although it feels awkward to suggest, you'd like to first delete Source before uploading Eshala into the system. Then you could be certain that Eshala would be alright, and someday you would join with them in perfect understanding and union. "Let Go." Source had said. The Founder had always taught that some day all things would end, but an ending wasn't really an ending at all, just a changing into something else. Now is the time for Source to be let go, and for the rest of you to embrace Change.