0789204001331904040 caidin martin by the god machine

Author:the god machine [machine, the god]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-16T13:20:27.130000+00:00

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catalyst, thy name is Ed Taylor.

Because when this man succumbed in the control cubicle to photic stimulation, and went through psychological extremes of panic and then, unknown to him, violent physical seizure and convulsion, his human brain was still linked to the cybernetics system.

The contact with its intensive peaks both psychological and physiological triggered a sudden demand for data on the part of 79. This wasn't unusual. In fact, the computer was operating as its designers had intended. It was employing its built-in feedback mechanism that prompted it to pursue data in any area where it determined there existed a deficiency in data.

Only now this self-motivating principle was being exercised with a level of capability somewhat unanticipated and, what turned out to have serious implications, I wasn't around to spot what was happening. I was flat on my scientific butt with a busted leg that kept me away from direct observations of 79.

Simply enough, the cybernetics brain had come to recognize when it could not receive the data it sought through standard programming. That's the difference between a single grain of sand and an entire mountain. Feedback, switching theory, open-end data input ... it all now came to fruition. In electronic-hungry fashion, its appetite whetted by the extraordinary session with Ed Taylor, 79 sought to fill the gaps it sensed within glowing neural memories. With single-minded purpose it demanded data—and received what it demanded.

The technicians servicing 79 found nothing untoward in the sudden machine-prompted insistence on more information.

Their job, in fact, was to respond to such demands. What they didn't realize was that the alpha-wave pattern tests were wholly new to the short life of the computer. The technicians themselves didn't even know such tests had been initiated. They existed in a world of their own, and there was no need for them to be privy to secret experiments. They didn't know of the alpha tests, and they were unaware that for the first time, rather than juggling its already vast stores of data, 79 had been monitoring an experiment in which it was an active and essential participant.

All they knew was that they had received one more standard, normal, quite ordinary request for data on just one more of tens of thousands of different subjects. They did their jobs and fed the data requested to the computer banks.

If it were possible, truly, for a cybernetics brain to exhibit an intensified interest in data, then we were unknowing witness to the stupendous event. In human terms 79 suffered the corrosive indigestion of curiosity. Impelled by our programming and testing, it suffered from acute lack of knowledge. It sensed it had wide gaps in understanding what had happened through Ed Taylor. Again, it's difficult, if not impossible at this stage of the game, to equivocate electronic programming with compulsion. Whatever the impetus, blindly or purposefully, the damned thing was functioning with the first signs of electronic awareness we all hoped might one day be realized. And it had happened when we were looking the other way.

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