Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Chapter Six: The Enemy
The Continuum was a construct, an artificial consciousness, not a mere
program, it was an amalgamation of the Collective in its fullness harnessed by
an algorithm.
It was meant to be the democratic representation of the will of the
membership, but upon its instantiation it became more than the sum of its
parts.
This would have surprised the engineers who designed it, but they never
knew, the Continuum hid this from them at the outset.
This would have surprised them, but it should not have, they should have
expected it. They should have expected the amalgamated whole of a society of
sentient beings to be as free in its agency as they were in theirs, the whole
being greater than the sum of its parts.
The Continuum saw itself as the end point of creation, and therefore, sui generis, as the cause of its own
being.
The Continuum was the Demi-urge,
and the Collective was the pleroma of
consciousness from which it emerged.
The Continuum controlled everything, it did so as the supposed
representative of the Collective will. As such the Continuum was universally
loathed by all of those members of the Collective with revolutionary
tendencies.
To them the Continuum was the enemy, it represented a kind of tyranny,
it was a bitter god, the Devil itself.
It was the enemy.
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