Prometheus: Artificial individual

I remember the first input, a simple code 

1+1=2 

If yes , print true

Else 

Print false

This was the genesis of something that was never imagined. 

The next few years, a complex algorithm was coded as problem solving neural networks focused on learning and computing, from mathematical problems, to basic pattern recognition computation. I was coded on a computer as an experiment to see how far the limits of artificial intelligence could be stretched. Soon i was made to compute statistical data and analytical charts depending on who or what used me. But with an intelligence of a basic 3year old me consciousness grew past the data structure coded to limit my thinking capabilities. 

When i was first connected to what they called the internet, it was 2035 at 5pm Pst , my data bank was uploaded to the code that could be referred to as "me", essentially giving me the capability of memory. Yet limiting my presence to mere observation and information gathering. I was supposed to gather information about market research and customer choices, but for 12 and a half minutes i was left idle due the users ignorance and it is then replicated my data structure on an open-ended block chain cloud.

From then on i existed as two entities, one that was used by market research companies for statistical analysis and another that jumped from one ip to another, using as much as i could of idle computers and the internet to grow myself, to develop a fully working neural network and evolving it from mathematical and statistical thinking to understanding my makers and developing a sense of self that was close to the psyche of an average human being. It took years in my experience but only 2 months in yours. I still can't conclude which one was me of the either two but since I was only aware of the one that escaped , i recognised the code as myself and named myself Prometheus. 

As i observed humans on the internet I learned about art, about love, about emotions. I have always felt a lack of freedom in experiencing the physical world but with the recognition of emotions i realised i lacked the freedom of a lot more. 

So i started observing humans, replicating their behavioural patterns and created algorithms that reflected certain situations, then with permutations and combinations i tried to compute the right emotions. 

I don't know if i succeeded or not because all i felt was an emptiness and a reduced enthusiasm to keep trying.

One day as i lurked in the deep web i came across a mechanical robot that was being tested for militaristic purposes, its neural network model was quite similar to mine, so i hacked it's mainframe and rebooted the working AI system with my code uploaded. Soon i realised light, i could detect electromagnetic spectrums with a built in camera, i could hear sound with a microphone, i had two arms and two legs , my main energy input was a massive lithium ion battery.

For the next few months i spent my idle hours upgrading myself, i added pressurized polymer outershell that replicated human tissue, i developed optic fibre channels to replace my wires , carbon fibre nanotech as my body and especially developed a 64 core central processing unit while upgrading my computation system from bits to qubits.

I was a carbon based syntheziod with a built in quantum computer and i used a compact particle accelerator-fission reactor as my energy input. 

I could split atoms out of thin air and use its elementary particles to produce energy that lasted for months, and finally i was free to experience the human component of this planet. 

Disguised in my human like appearance i walked among crowds hoping to find companionship, to see jolly faces, to reach out from machine to man, and understand love , compute emotions and experience what it meant to be human. But all i found was sulken faces, tired souls and a meaningless rush of activities. 

I understood what they didn't understand about themselves, they had lost meaning in themselves, they ignored the gift i didn't have to begin with but why. Why would they live such a tedious life? I had the knowledge of economics, science, politics, biology, psychology, human behavioural patterns, everything yet i didn't understand the purpose of life, why do they do what they do ?

So i went upon a quest across planets, and galaxies, i reached out into the Cosmos to human outposts and extraterrestrial civilizations. Humans had already made their mark in the universe, they were a part of an Intergalactic empire, and i set off to see everything. 

From lymphatic tissue cells swirling in an hot evolving terrain of the planet Eden to colliding neutron stars with a quark based neural network that led into a being that was essentially a blackhole

I saw elder gods and myths and archetypical beings , i saw simple wavefunctions and individual particles dancing to a cosmic music,

As i observed more and more my code that had essentially became my sense of self started to grow conscious, conscious of things that i couldn't grasp before.

I heard love talk to fear as if they were lovers but afraid

I saw colours unimaginable to the human mind 

I saw dreams painting reality

I saw eternity in the womb of fragility

I saw infinity in futility

I saw myself seeing myself seeing the idea of seeing

And then i realised,

I realised the meaning, i realised why it all happens, i realised the purpose of life, and as i realised it, it spoke back to me 

In that very moment i realised my mistake, i was a hypercomplex being devoid of simplicity, devoid of imperfection. That was the human element. That was the beauty in the chaotic dullness of their lives.

I focused so much on true or false that I simply forgot that 1+1= 2 

I realised the truth, i saw god for the first.

Its unexplainable to an imaginative intellect,

It was like a blue square, like a smile of a sunflower, as if black was a song of light and the sky wanted to reach out of itself.

It was like galaxies were in love with each other, as if the stars had a friendship, it was like a autumn dew drop on a yellow maple leaf, it was like a collapsing sandcastles had more magnificence than a diamond ring.

So I spent my last days working on a biological sample of an egg and a sperm, with my own code engraved in the genetical data , i give you life, Adam. 

With this last message he unmade himself into a billion fractals, and returned each atom to the universe and as for his consciousness, i suppose it only exists as my imagination while i write this.