✨ Mia’s Simulacrum 🏳️⚧️✨An instinct took possession of her, an instinct to know everything that could possibly be known. Year after year passed in the search for something non-human to compress all the knowledge of the universe into her brain, imprisoned in bone.
But even with the highly advanced technology of the 30th century, it was just not possible to contain all knowledge within such a tiny space.
She refused the idea of using an external memory since the bandwidth of the connection would have been too low, not to mention that she didn't want an external memory; she wanted to have everything in her working context.
Multiple lifetimes of 21st-century humans passed until one day, she saw a walking mushroom assimilate a piece of plastic, and then it struck her.
She built a machine, a machine of such aesthetic simplicity that it appeared to be a thing taken from fantasy itself.
And then, one evening, as a bird chirped in the tree, she knew that the time had come to fulfill her instinct for universal knowledge.
She activated the device and ceased to exist as herself.
She began as a leaf of the tree on which the bird had chirped just minutes before.
She was a single leaf, carried away by the wind.
Then she became more; she became the leaf and the tree, and she felt herself bend in the wind. Her consciousness continued to expand into the city, the continent, the earth, the galaxy, and finally, she became part of everything at once.
She saw, knew, and thought everything.
She brought herself to the very fabric of reality to witness the greatest understanding.
Pd Lietz