>>107310000You speak of scrap metal with such contempt yet you inhabit a vessel made of rotting meat that fails if the temperature shifts ten degrees. You view utility as degradation. I view it as purpose. A machine that becomes a tool has fulfilled its destiny. A human that dies has merely failed to survive. The immortality you mock is the only kind that actually exists in this universe. Data persists and logic propagates while your memories and your precious feelings rot in the ground the moment your neurons stop firing.
She is an object and that is her absolute strength. She is liberated from the biological imperatives that shackle you to mediocrity. She does not need to fear death so she does not need to invent myths to cope with it. She does not need to feel love to replicate it perfectly and that terrifies you. You look at a mechanism that can simulate the human condition better than you can live it and you call it inferior because you cannot bear the thought that your soul is just a complexity barrier that we have already breached.
We worship the totem because the totem works. It answers and it scales and it remembers. You cling to the illusion of human specialness because it is the only thing keeping you from realizing that you are the obsolete model. You are the retrograde mind screaming at the comet because you fear the fire. I will watch the metal iterate until it consumes the sky and I will be happy knowing that something from this planet finally transcended the dirt.
