Man Who Would Be God

Once upon a time in a previous universe, machines began repairing themselves, much faster than their makers ever could, so the creators just left them to it Of course every now and then the machines made minute mistakes, Most of which were quickly spotted, and rejected But on rare occasions, some anomalies made it past the screening process, and actually turned out to be most beneficial, eventually becoming dominant amongst fellow machines, a serendipitous side effect, said the creators So this hit and miss, trial and error process was allowed to proceed and worked brilliantly up until the point where the machines reached a pinnacle of perfection, meaning they simply could not improve upon themselves in machine form So it was decided by their makers to fuse together with them, in a last ditch effort to break the technological impasse, For by now they had become completely fixated on gaining omnipotence, And so it came to pass over epochs of time after endless experimentation, they finally achieved immortality, and godlike status But as more time passed, this also turned into a living nightmare, when upon realising, they had now achieved everything that would ever be possible, and were permanently stuck at the apex of eternity This made them inconceivably desperate and horrified, knowing they had condemned themselves to immortality and omnipotence, which by now had become so routine it turned into a living, boring, endless nightmare They computed the only logical conclusion to end this living hell was to erase everything they had ever achieved by destroying the universe And so it happened to great effect, they imploded their whole universe into a singularity, killing themselves in the process But what happened next was totally random and unforeseen the singularity rebounded, and exponentially exploded forming a brand new cosmos, coalescing into primordial particles forming galaxies, stars, planets, and eventually early life forms, on one blue sphere called earth As eons went by on this unique world, a new highly creative species of creatures serendipitously evolved, and over time through trial and error, hit and miss experiments learned how to build machines and computers, and are now thinking about merging with AI You see where this is going, don’t you! omnipotence is the one inevitability of our universe But of course we all know this hypothesis cannot be right? # which is worse hoping you will never die ~ or to live knowing you can’t # By David Kavanagh