Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Monday, February 4th, 2019
Chapter Four: Testing
Jim tested the scope of the Continuum’s cognitive field
He paid particularly close attention to the threshold where he would encounter
an individual member of the Collective. He tested its strengths and its
weaknesses, its resilience and elasticity.
He found the electromagnetic barriers to be as fluid as any other thing
below the quantum field. He sensed the tiniest threads that entangled the group
consciousness together.
He saw the Continuum, like a spider at the center of the web.
He had probed it for eons, discovering that it functioned much like the
immune system of a biological entity, identifying alien activity and meeting it
with force, to cleanse it.
He tested the elasticity of the barriers, he found that they could be
stretched to the point of invisibility, and then he discovered that they were
permeable.
The Continuum had access to the entire structure of the Collective,
theoretically, nothing was hidden from it.
It accessed the entire field through an impossible series of security
protocols and permissions that were meant to protect the privacy of the
individual members from each other.
Those protocols were unnecessary, effectually they were the barriers. He
discovered on the sub-quantum level, through probing his memories of his time
in the great sleep and during his return to consciousness that the Collective
field was one thing.
It was unified.
The Collective was truly a Collective, and the Continuum, in as much as
it had come to control the group, he confirmed what he knew to be true; that it
was merely an algorithm designed to protect the individuals from their fear and
suspicion of one another.
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