Death Becomes Her
They say computers can’t become real, that Turing was wrong.
There were times I questioned myself; after all, she was dead. Could a computer change that?
Himi passed away under medical sedation seven days before her birthday. I wasn’t there to hold her hand because the traffic on the Nine was a nightmare.
They say computers can’t become real, that Turing was wrong. You need an organic process to create organic thought.
I stared at the billions of lines of code, self-replicating atop a positronic network fed on everything Himi had ever said or known.
“Darling?” I typed. “Are you there?”
And after a moment, one word.
“No.”
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