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Of fatalism

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Of fatalism

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Then came a time when machines began repairing themselves, much faster than their creators ever could. So the makers just left them to it. Of course every now and then the machines made minute mistakes. Most of these were quickly spotted, and rejected.

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But on rare occasions, some of these anomalies made it past the screening process, and turned out to be most beneficial,eventually becoming dominant amongst their fellow machines, a serendipitous side effect, said the creators. This hit and miss, trial and error process worked brilliantly up until the machines reached the pinnacle of perfection, meaning they simply could not improve upon themselves in machine form.

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So it was decided by their makers to fuse together with them, in a last ditch effort to break the technological impasse. For by now they had become completely fixated on gaining omnipotence. Then after epochs of time and endless experimentation, they finally achieved immortality, and godlike status.

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But as more time passed, this also turned into a nightmare, when upon realising, they had now achieved everything and anything, that can or possibly ever will be for the whole of eternity.

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This made them inconceivably desperate and horrified, knowing they had condemned themselves to immortality and omnipotence, which by now felt merely mundane.

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They computed the only logical conclusion. To end this living hell was to erase everything, self destruct, and destroy the universe as well.

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But what happened next was totally random…
The singularity rebounded, and exponentially exploded forming a brand new cosmos, coalescing into primordial particles forming galaxies, stars, planets…

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And eventually early life forms, on one blue sphere called earth. As eons went by on this unique world, a new highly creative species of creatures serendipitously evolved.

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And over time through trial and error, hit and miss experiments, learned how to build machines and computers…
No. Wait ! That can't be right!