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
Copyright © David Kavanagh | Year Posted 2022
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