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The Risen Empire
compound mind Quotes
compound mind Quotes
compound mind
: a
Artificial Intelligence
from
The Risen Empire
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Existence was good. Far richer than the weak dream of shadowtime.
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It had been just a seed before, a kernel of design possessing a tiny mote of consciousness, waiting to unleash itself across a fecund environment. But only the integrated data systems of an entire planet were lush enough to hold it, to match its nascent hunger as it grew.
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That was being a compound mind. Not some yapping AI designed to manage traffic lights or zoning complaints or currency markets, but the epiphenomenal chimera that was well beyond the sum total of all these petty transactions.
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Sensory threads spread out in all directions, creeping vines of optical fiber and motile carbons.
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The compound mind moved suddenly and with the force of an entire living planet against the Empress’s confidant.
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