---------------------------------------- Writing stories November 23rd, 2017 ---------------------------------------- I was digging through some old files and ran across a story I started writing back in 2010 called Emergence. It's a piece of speculative fiction about the creation of the world's first artificial intelligence. It's somewhat technical, but only enough to ground it in a reasonable scientific basis for development of the story. My goal was to focus more on the human questions, "what constitutes life?", "what is our place in a universe with AI?", "do our concepts of morality extend to artificial beings?". I read back on what I had written so far and it didn't horribly offend me. The subject also seemed especially appropriate to the gopher audience, you misfits with your love of old tech and duct tape. I've picked it up and added it to my gopher hole. In fact, I added a whole writing section where I hope to share some other goodies in the future. For now, the first few chapters of the story can be found at the link below. Let me know what you think so far. (DIR) Emergence