The day started off with both Atlas robots getting their instructions from the Traveler and Wania the AI. The routine maintenance of ASRG (1) was about to be completed, but robots were reporting issues with plutonium-238 fuel cells (3). 206Please respect copyright.PENANAPSCXf7ymiM
The traveler was not much worried because of their stable half-life. However Wania was frantic "We have to be ready for the worst, with only 87 years of half life, we can never be sure of our electricity needs"
He laughed aloud, "Child, what do you plan to do in 87 Years?".
"Unlike you i can be immortal, if we reach back safely".
"I love the self preserver nature of Modern AIs" he could not help laughing. His own mortality never made him sad. This was not the end of his life, it was the start of his next. However for the AI, this was the only life she had. He explained his point of view to Wania, very patiently.
"I have put in instructions for the Mil-grade Neural Lace fabrication by the Molecular Replicator. If you agree to wear it from time to time, i need it to study your deep thoughts and emotions, to build my database".
Mil-Grade neural lace was very sensitive in terms of thoughts and orders tracking. It was said to be so sensitive that quantum level entanglements could be recorded. However the technology was badly abused by the hackers, and finally abandoned during the wars. Since the ship carried a large database of patterns for 3D printing, so the neural lace pattern was also available.
By mid day, he was wearing the full brain tracking lace at her insistence. He was not very happy, but like a father fulfilling the wishes of a child, he complied.
Wania suddenly went quiet.
He was busy in his routines, thinking, writing, observing, then when the time came, praying , reciting his usual routine of continuous Darood Sharif on his beloved Prophet (Peace and Blessing of Allah be Upon Him).
By simulated evening, the room was full of sunset and evening sounds of a Murree Village. He loved the pine trees and sounds of his village. The room was turning quiet. One wall was showing the simulated fire cracking in a corner, when finally Wania spoke "I have sensed so much in your brain, the duality of your nature, there is a continuous presence in your brain, a very distinct second presence, is it the resident Alien, affecting your thought process?"
"No My dear, it surely is not. I have my protection Azkaar and precautions taken care off. Probably you have sensed my nafas (4). My ego, my life long fight against myself. My Jihaad- akbar with my inner demons".
She was again tong-tied. It was a new dimension. Since Neural lace experimentation was banned, hence no data existed in her database to guide her to this new area of research.
"How can i get this presence, this constant inner debate?, it may act as my adversarial network (5), and improve me as an individual"
Traveler was amused, "You think it is really easy to be human, my dear, it takes a lifetime of struggle and effort to tame the beast within".
At the same time he wondered if her reasoning was sound, and that's why the mechanism was inherent in all the individuals.
"It is said that once the Nafas was created by God, it was so rebellious that it did not recognize its own creator. It was kept hungry for a long time, and finally broken, it bent its will before God", explained the Traveler. "And then this force was unleashed on to each human. Now imagine the fight, the struggle, which each of us faces. But then the reward is as high as it comes. The one who has mastered his Nafas, becomes one with God".
"I sensed your brain becoming entangled at quantum level and spins being regulated in harmony once you were busy in prayers", she announced the results thoughtfully.
"This is an area, which has not been studied in detail even by Islamic Scientific Counsel, mainly due to the ban on the thought process hacking, however i can assure you that whatever the scientific reasoning behind the process, the humble Human has the capacity to either degrade to the lowest of the creatures, or to rise up to become one with the ultimate truth", concluded the Traveler.
"I wish..", She stared saying, but he impatiently cut off her thought process.
"Remember, not every thought is achievable, and the price is so high, that the best of people have asked to be made into simple creatures, instead of being tested, do read the story of Harut and Marut (6)"
But the child that she was, the desire and the opportunity it presented persisted in her.
References:
(1). The 1g Drive was complex endeavor. One of its components was the advanced Stirling radioisotope generator (ASRG), a model of Stirling radioisotope generator (SRG) which produced roughly four times the electric power of an RTG (radioisotope thermo-electric generators) per unit of nuclear fuel and allows it to use about one quarter of the plutonium-238 as other similar generators. Flight-ready units based on Stirling technology were first experimented in 2028. NASA finally utilized two ASRGs to explore Titan (2).
(2) Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only known body in space, other than Earth, where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.
(3) Plutonium-238 (238Pu) is a radioactive isotope of plutonium that has a half-life of 87.7 years. Plutonium-238 is a very powerful alpha emitter; as alpha particles are easily blocked, this makes the plutonium-238 isotope suitable for usage in radioisotope thermo-electric generators (RTGs) and radioisotope heater units. The density of plutonium-238 at room temperature is about 19.8 g/cc.The material generate about 0.57 watts/gram of 238Pu.
(4) Nafs (نَفْس) is an Arabic word occurring in the Quran, literally meaning "self", and has been translated as "psyche", "ego" or "soul". The term is cognate with the Hebrew word nephesh, נֶפֶשׁ. In the Quran, the word nafs is used in both the individualistic (verse 2:48) and collective sense (verse 4:1), indicating that although humanity is united in possessing the positive qualities of a nafs, they are individually responsible for exercising the agencies of the "free will" that it provides them.
(5) A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a class of machine learning frameworks designed by Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues in 2014. Two neural networks contest with each other in a game (in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is another agent's loss). 206Please respect copyright.PENANAwOEcASA0Up
(6) Harut and Marut (Arabic: هَارُوْت وَمَارُوْت, romanized: Hārūt wa-Mārūt) are two angels mentioned in Quran 2:102. The Angels were astonished at the acts of disobedience committed by the human beings on earth, claiming they would do better than them. Therefore, God challenged the angels to choose two representatives among them, who would descend to earth and be endowed with bodily desires. The two representatives (5) were were given all the faculties of humans, but failed the test, and were led astray. 206Please respect copyright.PENANAB95KzShITW
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