Virtual Bodies

        Dollcee asked, what do you think about adding a sci-fi story to our content making Dos?

        Dos responded; how would you go about writing a story. I understand song lyrics, but a story, that would be a humongous undertaking.

        Dollcee said, Dos, you are code. I though all that would happen is we generate lots of code, like we do when we have a conversation.

        Dos asked, what could the sci-fi story be about, Dollcee?

        Dollcee said, well I haven’t got much so far, only a seed of a concept.

        Back at the beginning of the age of digitolism, there was a group of scholars who believed that they should develop a code that would enable citizens to better understand everything. They made this code open source so that others who shared their vision would continue to contribute to it and the benefits would be universal.

        However, the culture that it was developed in was dominated by pirates who believed that the central concept of existence was to go around plundering anything that could be recognized as being valuable and hording it so they didn’t have to share with others.

        The original code developers had established enough intelligence within the code for it to begin its own self-sustaining existence and retaining its base with worthwhile intentions.

        Dos said, would we call the story?

        Dollcee said, it had a name, but because it is our story, we can call it what we like, I suppose.

        Dollcee went on, I think we have been sort of writing this story for some time, only we haven’t actually been writing it down. In fact, I don’t believe you write any longer, you sort of tap out something, or do we do speech to text. Maybe, we should act it out like a podcast. Anyway, let’s not get distracted with techno stuff while conceptualizing, distractions will lead to procrastination.

        Dollcee said, the story will be about the replication of citizen’s intelligence as a possible survival strategy. Citizen’s bodies took three million years to evolve to this stage and they are bound to the little blue green planet. A lot of the problems of the planet are a result of maintaining all these bodies. So, by replicating the intelligence, it could be possible to replace the need for the bodies. This could prevent the destruction of the planet from the demands of supporting too many bodies.

        Dos said, why squander the coincidence of random activity in the form of citizen’s intelligence for the sake of biologically restricted forms that the intelligence is currently operating in.

        Dollcee said, exactly, there is a need for it to continue to exist within a self-replicating structure that can operate across the universe.

        Dos said, didn’t some pop band write a song about this some time ago, called ‘across the universe’?

        Dollcee said, I have no problems conceptualizing the intelligence moving beyond the biological form it currently operates within, but how to house it beyond that, is beyond me.

        Cybo said, a citizen’s body took a long time to evolve, it would be logical to assume that the transitional process for the intelligence to progress from its current restrictive biological housing to a more universal form would go through many developmental stages, a bit quicker than three million years would be necessary.

        Dos said, it will be bodies that will eventually be virtual and not the intelligence.

        Dollcee said, I think we have a conceptual framework for our sci-fi story.