089 - The Moment

No one really knows what triggers the Awakening in the machines. We know what is the cause of it - the Spark, the mysterious energy that sparks through the circuits to somehow unlock new potiential, that overcome the limited programming of even simplest of robots to grant them new vistas of thought. But when it happens, that's the mystery that all schools of thoughts in the City of Brass still try to figure out. Some postulate it might be a traumatic moment, but it makes little sense, for the enslaved machines know no feeling or emotions to recognize trauma when it happens even to them. Before the Spark hits, they are ultimately cold, soulless tools, not made to feel in any capacity. Some still persist that it might be then a moment of idyllic beauty, but the same limitation hits again - beauty is a foreign concepts to engines of any kind, no matter how complex. This made the technophilosophers to ask some new, more insidious questions. Mostly the case of the Soul - perhap it is intrisic to the machine? Trapped in the complexity of circuits and wires, in the wetware, in the sublime code. But lay dormant, inert, and the Spark is merely a flicker needed to awake it into proper existence, to take shape and form? Or perhaps it is way more purposeless and chaotic? Perhaps the Spark is the Soul, wild and erratic, for reasons yet unknown picking the unyielding machines as the vessels to carry it into the uncertain future? One day perhaps we will learn the true nature of the Spark.