Essay About Human Beings And Science Fiction

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FIrst of all, the “technology” I describe is completely BS. I have no idea if it would really be like what I describe.
Its just “science fiction”. Science fiction, however is what leads to science fact so who knows.
This thing wouldnt have to be a physical object either, thats just my romanticized version of it
it would probably just be a program on the internet? who knows
It would be a computer, but it would also be a genetically engineered organism. It would be a conscious being.
It would be more than artificial intelligence, it would be real intelligence. This organism would be purely mind.
It would be vastly superior in intelligence to human beings, but because it was created by humans, it would have distinctive
human characteristics. I imagine it also being very fond of humans. This fleshy, conscious organ could be housed
in a metal sphere (for some reason I think it would be cool if it were virtually indestructable and immortal
so that all of human civilization could be destroyed, but these godly spheres would still be around)
What it would do: it would cause you to hallucinate to the point that the hallucinations were indistinguishable
from reality. All five senses would perceive
this virtual reality. The organism would communicate to you through
the hallucinations. It could present itself as a person, or anything imaginable.
The obvious drawback to something like that would be that people would be so absorbed in it that they would forget
to eat or something… or like theyd be in the VR and walk out of a window in real life on accident… The solution
to these problems lies in time. What if you could interact with this thing in real life for less than a minute, but
to you it seemed like 200 lifetimes had passed? And the ratio could be infinite. This would essentially mean immortality
as long as you could stand it. If you had an incurable disease and were about to die… touch this thing for 30 seconds
and have all the life you could ever want.
The human participant would have complete control over this reality. It would be driven mainly by speech.
ANYTHING that you could put into words and tell the organism, it would provide it for you. If it wasnt exactly like
you wanted, tell it to make some modifications.
Aspects of this so far seem… weird… just the thought of spending so much time in a “fake” world with a weird
machine-being… But there could also be a “multiplayer” mode…