Enlightenment by KatesFriend
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Nina knows all there is to know about rain. She knows all there is to know about all forms of precipitation that fall on Mother Earth. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of all known physical phenomena. She possesses the understanding to utilize it coupled with the senses, memory and awareness to add to it. At a glance, she estimates the pollution level in the air from the refractive index and absorption spectrum of the drop that crashes onto her middle finger. Feeling the impulse, she calculates that it has free fallen 1.8 to 2.0 km. Consistent with the nimbostratus type clouds which gather over Dystopia most late afternoons. Twenty-seven drops of rain have struck her person or her cloths since this small shower began 262 seconds ago.
Though Nina is seconded to the Ministry of Social Services as an infirmary medic, this is not her intended social purpose. But her model has only narrow appeal and not all synthetics have successful careers as surrogates. A profession sometimes derided by the crass as "cherry pickers", the false pious as "damned elitist intellectuals" and veteran floater bots as "accomplices". But all synthetics are capable of providing emergency medical support for their human counterparts and of coarse each other. Most of Nina's model service as emergency care works, especially on space craft where resources such as food, water and air are carefully measured. Resources which Nina requires only sparingly.
But now Nina is focused on the water: a raindrop that shatters into eighteen distinct droplets against her middle finger. The blue deficient sunlight spreads out through the spray into barely perceptible, short lived rainbows. And Nina notices something different in the spectra. She records the dark lines, signatures of water and its common solutes - oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbonic acid, estrogen, etc. There is a 0.21% jump in the sulfurous compounds expelled by compensating triffids as they "walk" through the paved ways of the city. But nitrous oxide is down by 3.2%, "no laughing matter there", as humans would say. But there is still something else - in the green part of the spectrum. Something different, something she had not noticed in the past, an anomaly consuming more and more of her processes though she had collected and analyzed all the raw data available.
"Curiosity?", Nina asks herself. But she did not seek the dictionary definition - which she knows. This query is different. It is different because she is not answering someone else's question, some human perhaps. It is different because she asked it of herself. It is different because she does not know why she asked it of herself. And she is just as curious about why she asked the question as she is of her original query.
The two questions bounce back against each other as Nina's supercomputing brain shifted from one query back to another in order to solve the problem she herself created. They are echoes that reinforce each other, creating resonance. As an infinite loop programme that had lost control, consuming every bit of memory and every process thread that her mind can muster. The best operating systems would crash over such tensions. Nina expected the tell tale blue flash at any moment, followed by an ALLSTOP order. Yet in the 7 tera-cycles worth of analysis since the process started four one millionths of a second ago, there is no failure. No RESTART command issued. Though seemingly pointless, Nina focuses all visual resources and processing into the green portion of the spectrum.
Nina has five senses just like the humans she was made to emulate. But the experience taking shape in her thoughts is not part of any of those things. This is a knew dimension - a sixth sense? No, not like the others. This is not raw data, this is a depth that Nina has never fathomed, never considered to even exist. And so Nina concludes that she prefers 532 nm green above all colours in the visual spectrum.
There will be others like her of coarse. And then Nina realized, there are others already.
Comments (31)
anitalee
Nice work
mgtcs
Excellent image and writing! Congratulations!
magnus073
Great work on both image and the story Clayton. I'll comment more later to you when my arm is better.
flavia49
the story is superb and the image too!!! fabulous work!
drifterlee
Wonderful portrait and interesting story!
Faemike55
E P I P H A N * Y ! ! !
npauling
Excellent work with Nina and the raindrops are super. An imaginative tale to go with it.
MOSKETON
FANTASTIC.
Minda
superb story and and amazing image clayton!!
evielouise
I copied the story to word and I will read it later (like early morning with my coffee)been a rough day I am kind of tired tonight: Love the render it's super and wonderful!~~
Chipka
Fantastic writing. WOW! I love this, the way you get into Nina's consciousness and reveal the world as she would perceive it. Wonderful! The image itself is fantastic as well...I love the expression on her face and the whole sense of wonder both words and image convey. This is marvelous work! I definitely look forward to more!
renecyberdoc
fantastic story with all the data processing.love your fantasies. and the way you placed the dystopia buildingblock here 5++.
thecytron
Xcellent rendering work!
ACue
I love the narrative and where you're going with it. Also, anyone who would create a character who is "seconded to the Ministry of Social Services" deserves comment. Thanks for posting such a thoughtful and intriguing work.
MagikUnicorn
Lovely beautiful blue :)
schonee
Well done!
goldie
i am really impressed with your storyline--very thoughtful,intelligent and. i would say, timely...your bot is quite lovely too--she does look robotic, but has a hint of humanity to her...an all around excellent creation, clayton ;)
giareg
Beautiful scene!
myquad
Incredible writing and image, Clayton!!
eekdog
well done, like the pov..
JeffersonAF
Excellent work.
cece7894
Beautiful work friend! Cece
Hendesse
Excellent composition. Fantastic pose and expression.
tennesseecowgirl
Nice story, Great work!!!
myrrhluz
I love the way this starts off analytical and mechanical, and leads to a major spiritual happening. It's very interesting to experience the changes as she does. Excellent image. The fascination she is feeling is very evident in her expression. The translucent quality of the umbrella is beautiful! Terrific work!
Hubba1
Very cool :) Love your talent!
shadownet
Fantastic story and illustration! 10+
chimera46
I love the write up, that of an AI growing into something more. Also, it's reassuring to know that in the future they still have estrogen in the water...
JaneEden
Clayton your story and your artwork are amazing, really well done dear friend. hugs Jane xx
kasalin
Great artwork and story, dear Clayton !!!! 5* Hugs Karin:)