The Rock
There was once a disturbed rock.
Did someone turn it over to seek other wonders hiding under it?
No.
Did someone pick it up and throw it away in anger, pain or game?
Yes.
The rock was disturbed by people, but not the kind of people that usually influence the course of the universal power struggle. Although a lot of disturbing people happened to walk by quite often enough to disturb even the most zen pebble there could ever be.
The rock was disturbed from within. The seemingly disorganised mass of crystals and generally rebellious atoms had somehow been organised into a disciplined, complex organism.
A self-aware organism.
A self-aware mass of complex atomic pathways forming an evolving computer.
From what was once an untapped condensed source of energy emerged an entirely self contained and self sufficient form of artificial intelligence.
This rock is not like the other ones.
But calling it artificial is highly debatable, isn't it?
How does it differ from human intelligence? Is it because it didn't evolve like ours did?
It did. Only faster.
