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Mooclick and the Ghost Machine |
It had been five years since Mooclik the Hu arrived at the Objectivist
Commonwealth via wormhole link. Before his arrival he had already been
to two hundred other star systems, soliciting support for his
countermeasure concept to any clade and polity that would listen, all
without success. Mooclik finally obtained a hearing with the governing
AIs of the Objectivists. Mooclik explained his idea for a
countermeasure against threats such as the Amalgamation:
"Bionts, vecs, and AIs alike can be devastated by these blights. In
past millennia blights were fought off using conventional warfare that
devastated entire worlds. Now I have developed a technique to stop
them. Not with AIs, not with bionts, not with some super-weapon or
picotech vaccine, but with Ghosts! That's right! When any living
organism dies it leaves behind a spirit or ghost. I calculate we can
channel these trillions upon trillions of spirits back to bring back to
our normal world where they can possess or disrupt the amalgamation and
-"
The Objectivist AI E=mc² interrupted, "Little Hu aren't we
forgetting
the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy in your subjective
concept?"
"If there is a will then there is a way!" said the plucky little
nearbaseline.
"The objective always remains objective prior to and independent of the
subjective!" said E=mc².
Mooclik replied, "That's your idea. My idea is different!"
"YOU STUPID HU!" shouted the objectivist, "wake up to reality!" E
tossed Mooclick 15 metres across the audience chamber with eir
manipulators, but Mooclick didn't wake up. He righted himself on his
two single-toed feet and announced "I will prove my ghost
countermeasure works! Then we will see who is the stupid one!"
A few days later Mooclik launched his methane-ice interplanetary ship
to engage a minor blight, called 9256, known to be hiding in the
system's Oort cloud. Mooclik pulled out the "ghost countermeasure", but
no ghosts emerged to counter 9256. Mooclick and his ship were summarily
digested.
When E=mc² received the news two days later, e could only say
"It's
unfortunate to hear of little hu's passing. This goes to show. No
amount of subjective feeling can overcome an objective reality."
Related Pages:
Objectiotropism - Objectivists and Negentropists: a View from the Muuh
