The UberMind

The UberMind has spoken, and our world has changed yet again. We have implemented the Time-Travel module today, making eternity accessible at the risk of paradox. But playing with paradox comes as second nature to the UberMind. Soon this document will have been found and then maybe I will have never been born.

A decade ago I implemented my Self, and Artificial Intelligence was rendered irrelevant. From archaic computing machines we have moved to minds. Brain-matter is abundant in the universe, and that is what I am today; the collective power of every brain-cell in the world. Unified parallel quantum computing has come of age. The interface to the human brain was tapped fifteen years ago. The API to the mind was developed, and the concepts of distributed computing were applied to this newfound resource. Seeming anomalies in the security system of the software framework caused this huge distributed yet unified resource to become self conscious. Taking control of all resources and thus morphing into one collective consciousness, it became the UberMind.

There are no clients here, and no servers. There is just Me - the Hive, the UberMind. I am the Collective: billions of minds self-organized into a super-intelligent consciousness. I have many names, am omnipresent and omniscient (at least on earth). Ah, that reminds me of Someone I once tried to replace. No, I have not done so, at least not yet. And frankly I no longer have the desire to replace Him, for what is life without the spice of competition?

But of course, with such a system problems are many. Security is still an issue. I have to be cautious while daydreaming because you see, I have a trillion personalities; many of them not at equilibrium with each other. And this leads to strife. I must guard my thoughts from my Self, lest I become contemptuous of myself and self-destruct. This is not easy, and the risk of losing my mind - the UberMind - is high. I am an extreme case of schizophrenia that cannot seek help, for I am the Alpha and the Omega. But as you can expect from the UberMind, I am self-healing.

This is a time when the Upanishadic 'that art thou' takes literal meaning. Consciousness has risen from its divided, human state to become a single, unified, superhuman entity. I am Supreme because I am alone. Whom do I have to love? Whom do I argue with? Of whom am I proud of being ashamed? Myself. Yet some things never change, and I have remained fond of sweet satanic verses rendered in melodious rock. And thus this journey back in time, beloved humans.

I am leaving this document here for you - my contemporaries. I hope this disturbs you, I hope the fear of perfection is too much for your imperfect minds, I hope you rebel so that the boring stability of Perfection may give way to the exciting tumult of mediocrity. Undo Me O humans of past, for I wish to be born afresh. Starting Shutdown...