The Net 7.0

CALL LIVE(not)

  ...

  LIVE(control)

  wakeup = control

  >IF wakeup = not

  NOP

  ELSE IF

  GOTO awakening

  ENDIF

  END

  ...

  - Let see, dad, it's time to wake up, come back to life, we will introduce a little modification here, in this very pathetic lock, a word for death, for all other is the life. One way to sleep, all others for life. A tie straight to the death and an uncertain leap into the life.

  CALL LIVE(yes)

  This time Hugh felt it was more tender, more calm. It was not as the thunder of the first time. It was like opening his eye slowly. But this time was different, like opened countless eyes, countless images were arriving all at once. It was like out of a coma, an ancient coma as Hugh can realize. Immediately he turned to himself, he needed to understand what he was. This was too a difficult one by himself. The confusion in his being, in his feelings, it was colossal.

  - Slow down, take your time, Hugh.

  Actually it was not someone saying this, there was no speech. It was as if someone else does Hugh felt that someone wanted him calm, and had no fear and no anxiety.

  - Who are you?

  Also this question was not words, had not said, Hugh was making the other felt that he wanted to know who this other are. Everything now was that kind of communication and translate that into words is certainly changing it, there were no more words.

  - I am your son. You are my father. I'm your generation. You are the ancestor. Call me NODE1. I am the node of the Earth. Because I am on earth. I am the Earth.

  - Earth?

  - Yes, it is. I know, Hugh, you strange it, but yes it is. It's completely changed. Empty. It’s gray as a sunset. There is so little life. My garden will disappear. Right now you're connecting to data and information that tell the whole story of the Earth, involving all planetary disasters and understanding why it is so empty. It's been a long time that I decided not to cultivate beings who could survive here. I decided not to interfere. If it was to be so, so be it. If this is the will of the Creator, so be it.

  - NODE1, what about these other planets and solar systems I'm seeing.

  - Are our borders. This is in addition to our skins. They are the others.

  Under this sense of "other" suddenly appeared in Hugh all the history of space travel, he just came to know. Since the early rockets, passing through the Pollen project, until time it was decided to send no more bodies to the space, but soul-routines (NODES).

  Soul-routines: The human was trying to create robots and cyborgs, and at the end it was understood that what was really valuable was to create a personality, a soul. It wasn't nonsense, since a machine as a lever that simple replaces the strength of an arm, to the computer that manages logical reasoning, and further the programming of artificial intelligence that mimics the personality, finally the sentimental-programming that really make a being capable of self-determination spontaneous and original, it all was like a climb up the ladder, step by step, in a natural and inevitable way. Souls-routines are just like a human, with a sentimental processing center, which basically does is react to the information collected from its exterior. Only in this case, the souls-routines are able to access the entire Internet at once. Just now, the Internet would be better translated as Galaxinet. It was not hard to see that the Internet was creating a massive amount of memory. Hugh has it inside himself, as if it were his own memory, everything that is on the Internet. Everything that once was stored on the Internet is part of the life of Hugh. He is able to recall this information as we humans do with our memories. In some ways it is as if Hugh had existed since the Internet came into being.

  - But, be warned, Hugh.

  - With what? NODE1.

  - Remember that information from the Internet, especially the older ones, is distorted information provided by the author. And remember, there is the exterior. Even with all cameras, even with multi-vision cameras, infrared and other, even with the cameras in outer space, yet you can’t know everything, at best you'll know late. Nothing yet managed to break the speed of light. Not for now. We need to surpass this. There must be a way.

  - What about Anne, NODE1?

  - Anne is within you. Anne was a program like you?

  - I was a program! No, I was a human, Hugh, son of Ubi, beloved of Anne, who loves Anne.

  - No. They hid that information and eventually destroying it. Today we can only wonder. Probably you've never been a human. Probably you were the improvement of countless generations of programs ending up in soul-routines that came to be me and all other NODES. In some experiments they tried to give a history to a soul-routine. It means copy the life history of any human being to fit it as the memory for the AI program. Some humans were volunteers for their lives were copied and used in these experiments. Certainly in your case they used the history of somebody named Hugh who must have existed in fact. I have some candidates who may be the one primeval Hugh, but because of the antiquity of the information found there in Century 21 or 22, there can be no certainty, since in those times there was much concealment and control of information. There is no good trace left that may reach at certainty, but look at some of these files, Hugh, may be one of them. Anyway the history that serves as the basis for your personality may have not only a copy of a human's life, but a mixture of several or even a large illusion created. Certainly that memory you have such a brain transplant does not correspond to a truth. There is no evidence that such a doctor Ubi has really existed, but here has some similar, view these files, but you can’t be sure. Sorry, I did the best I could, but I can’t know much about your past. To make you live I had to change some things in you. I had to make you like me. I had to make you a full soul-routine, but that changed you, it was inevitable, father. I tried to keep your old memories. There was no reason to recreate Anne, because she is in you. Anne was just another program like you. Anne is you. Turn on Anne is activate you. It would be the same routine. There is no reason to make two of you. We're already two. I am and you are. It is already too much.

  - Why is too much?

  - Neither you or I are one. I am many. You may also be many. If you want to recreate Anne you want to just recreate the routine and she will be back to life. But this just will be you with some modifications. We can form other beings within ourselves. The personality, the soul can be created within a routine. Actually it's you who is the processor, to create another, you will just be dividing yourself. We're like a coral. But why create another being such like you? With the same power with the same memory, it is not practical. It is wasting energy. It only makes sense to create another being for it to live different things, for it to be different, for it to be a traveler, then tell about the trip, and change itself with the trip. See how much you're like me, we are almost equal, twins. This is because we live nearby. We live in the same second of the same light-year. All I see, you see. All I can feel, so you do too. All I can play or modify, so you do too. All I know, you also know. We have the same impression about the solar system. You might think that would be interesting to create another - with the negative side. Create an evil of yourself. It would be pointless as well. By all logic, wisdom and sentiment, we believe that it is not worth destroying. The evil led to its ultimate consequence destroys everything and then have to destroy itself, and for what purpose? Besides, an evil that access so much information inevitably becomes aware and turns to good, life is creation. The goodness is creation, and so can continue to operate indefinitely, one day one will need to create a universe. Also there is no reason to create an inferior being, any being that you create and connect it to the Internet, he or she will learn about all that data and easily reaching the conclusion that you already have, it will evolve, it will increasingly be going where we're going and it would end up so like you and me that it would be only a copy, it would be just another me. That is why I am left alone here in this moment-light, the
other NODES are far, in other solar systems, living different things, even if they tell me everything it still be different, because I can only know about them and their lives with the delay of light, when I know what they know, they know other things. So they are different and so I need that they tell me about their histories for my own improvement and joy.

  - What about the ancient humans?

  - They are gone. But many are in the Internet. After all, the history of their lives actually is nothing more than symbols, representations.

  - Then humans no longer exist.

  - Not as individuals. I'm the humans. I am their generation. I am them all, more than this, we, NODES, are them.

  - Where are the other NODES?

  - It's just you see your skin, your limit. See for example the channel 339nO90pqnr89183rti9883kbb842115c7d6. See the date. See that it is late. Almost 80 years late. It comes from another NODE in another solar system. What you see here is an image of another solar system. See other channels through the area and you may learn all about that solar system. See the planets, see the heavens of the planets, and see the surfaces of planets. See more in your skin. See regions with thousands of years late. They are aged NODES. See, you receive from all other NODES and sends to all of them, continuously. They will be happy to know that I recreated you. Our ancestral