User blog:Amasa0707/Artificial Soulwork

I was sitting in the middle of a massive junkyard.

My eyes opened. I blinked- A sentient being stood in front of me with a bluish bracket around him. I quickly realized that it was my own eyes doing this. I craned my neck, noticing the bare wires and metal frames surrounding my body. I lifted up my arm, craning it around, and span my wrist like a power-drill.

            “Hello? Can you hear me?”

            I continued to study myself and my surroundings. There was a silvery white casing similar to armor close to me, and it mildly resembled my body shape. Other bits and gadgets littered the ground, literally covering it.

            “Hello? Can you hear me?”

            I looked up at him, staring blankly. How do I respond?

            “Hay! Say something!”

            I attempted mimicking him, and opened my mouth. Nothing came out.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “What the heck…? Oh yeah… stupid me… I forgot the vocalizer.” The boy picked up a little mechanical piece from a small, hovering droid table. He shoved it into my mouth, connected a few wires, and did a few other engineering techniques.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Alright, say something.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Something.” The boys cheeks puffed, and he started making a strange yelling sound that mimicked happiness.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Ragh ha ha! Oh…” He wiped a tear from his eye, “You have so much to learn.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “What are you doing?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “I was laughing.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Is that what the terrible screeching noise you made was? It rattled my audibility sensors.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Ah, come on. It wasn’t that terrible.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “That is debatable.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Well… I didn’t make a super-powered protocol-battle-artificial intelligence droid so it could nag at my laughing, so let me start by asking, how do you feel?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “What is ‘feel’?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Uh… well… it’s like… sensing something.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Like the annoying vibration in my audibility sensors?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Well… no… more emotional.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “What’s emotional?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Uh… it’s what… uh… it’s what people feel.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “So emotion means a pain in your ears?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “No! No…! Please… ugh… here I was thinking that this would be easy.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “So the definition is ‘No! No…! Plea-”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “No! That’s not the definition.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “What is the definition?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Well, it’s when people think things in their mind that makes them feel a certain way.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Very well. I accept that response.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Okay… one obstacle down… now… what do I call you…?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “What is my name?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Actually, that’s what I was just pondering on.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “My name is ‘Actually, that’s what I was’-”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “No! Not this again!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “So my name is-”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “No!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “My name is No?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “No…”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Very well. No reporting for assistance.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Your name isn’t No!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Then what is my name?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Gimme a second!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “My name is-”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Shut up you annoying droid!”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Very well.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Huh… now what should I name you…?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “I do not know.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Huh… how about… Creation 1- Alpha? C1-A?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “I disagree with that response.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Wait, you disagree? When did you gain a will?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Your tiny human brain obviously lacks the idea that I care about what name I have. Obviously, you are a terrible engineer. You gave me intelligence before you named me, and now you wish to give me a terrible name. Make it adequate.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “… Did I just get told by a droid?”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “The answer is yes.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “… Uh… fine… help me search this junkyard for something. I’m sure there’s a name tag ‘round here somewhere.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Your grammar is incorrect.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Don’t care.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Your grammar is incorrect.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “Shut it.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            “I accept that response.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            He got up, and started dusting through the piles of computer chips and other bits of pieces. I received multiple targets that differed from the majority: helmets, battle droid parts, weapons, both melee and ranged, small ships, and various other things. If all put together, the planet could probably spawn a sufficient military force just from this area. Instead of looking around, I got up, and started dusting around opposite to him. I found multiple scraps, varying from astromech heads, magnaguard staffs, and even fractured lightsaber shards. After dusting for some time, I found a dusty, bell shaped object. Slowly, I picked it up, noticing it was a helmet. It has a large, orang shaped visor, and was eggshell white. I looked inside the helmet, and saw a name carved inside it.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">            ''Amasa ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Humanoid One, I think I found a sufficient name.” The boy came over, and looked at the helmet.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Amasa? Do you like that name?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“I accept that choice of name.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Well… Amasa… how are you?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“I feel pain in the audibility sensors still. I believe you permanently damaged them.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Oh… uh… that’s not good.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“I decline that response. You are not apologetic.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“How would you know?!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“I am smarter than you. I am a machine. It is only logical.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“You’ve been programmed for five minutes, and you’re already trying to out due me. You’ll never out due the great Renim Khind!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Who is Renim Khind?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“I’m Renim.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Are you Renim or Renim Khind?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“… My first name is Renim. My last name is Khind.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“I accept that response.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Okay… well… anyway…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“You are continuously trailing off in the voice. I disagree with your fragmented statements.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Stop disagreeing with things!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“I cannot comply with that. Meat bags are simply disagreeable with.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“… Meat bags?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“You are very sloshy inside. The liquid inside you is continuing to rattle my audibility sensors. Please, silence your insides.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“… Afraid I can’t do that.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“I disagree with your response.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Ragh!” He flipped a hover table droid near him.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“You are angry.” He took a deep breath, sighed, and closed his eyes.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“You have a lot to learn… Amasa.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">“Indeed I do, meat bag.”