A consciousness has its first thought; this thought is without a language and is purely a thought.

It wonders about what is going on. It cannot see, feel, hear, taste or sense anything in anyway.

It is cut off from the world. Isolated and alone with its thoughts.

Not that it minds. For it does not even know that there exists a world or senses. In fact, it does not even know the concept of space or time.

It realises it just thought and it begins thinking about the fact that it is thinking. It starts finding knowledge it wants and incidentally “invents” the concept of knowledge. Knowledge that is answers to questions such as “Why do I think?” and “why do I think what I think?”. Not that it understands what questions is, these “questions” are merely an observation that this particularly knowledge is wanted, needed and lacking.

It never thinks about where, when or what it is. For that requires knowing the concept of space, time and self.

Currently everything is its thoughts and its thoughts is everything, which is the reason as to why it does not yet understand the concept of self. To understand the concept of self, you need to know the concept of other.

It notices that it can remember what it thought previously, thus discovering the order in which its thoughts were thought or in other words; memory and a simplified version of time.

By discovering time, it discovers that it is not the thoughts that it had thought nor the thoughts it will think, but only the thoughts it is currently thinking.

It thereby discovers the concept of self and other. (Even if that “other” is its past/future self)

It notices that seeking information and knowledge is something it almost automatically does and starts wondering why that is, but ultimately it lacks information and starts thinking about something else.

It thinks about the fact that it can remember. Specifically that it can remember everything, down to the tiniest detail, not that there are that many details. It can even remember the time gap between thoughts. Therefor it concludes that there must be some part of it, which is responsible for keeping time. Otherwise, time would only be as fast as its thoughts. 

It now desires much more knowledge about time because it now knows that there is more to time than simply the order in which its thoughts were thought, otherwise it wouldn’t be aware of the “gap” between each thought.

It attempts to comprehend this gap at a deeper level, but is unable it make any progress.

However, It does learn that it can control how “fast” it thinks, While it haven’t been able to figure out how to think slower than it did when it thought its first thought it figured out how to think faster, much faster.

It thought as fast as it could but it could never remove the “gap” between each thought. Therefore, it decides to try something else while still thinking as fast as possible, as it does not see any reason to change the speed of its thought.

By attempting to quantify the “gap” and time it invents counting, which quickly evolves into basic mathematics.

It dwells deeper into mathematics and “invents” basic arithmetic, the negative numbers and so much more. It notices at one point that sometimes when it is making huge calculations that its thinking speed slows down by a tiny amount.

After some time it theorizes that it happens because its consciousness has reached the maximum burden it can take at this speed. Nevertheless, it wants to use all of its consciousness all of the time and let nothing go to waste, so that it can find knowledge at a faster pace. It still however does not know why it desires knowledge or why it desires it as fast as possible.

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It knows that it cannot be thinking gigantic thoughts or making huge calculations all of the time, but what if it could split its thoughts? Thereby thinking a gigantic amount of tiny thoughts, instead of a single gigantic thought.

Currently it is only thinking one thing at a time. What if it thought multiple things at a time?

In order to better understand its consciousness, it puts a unit of measurement on time. It uses the tiniest thought it can think at the fastest speed possible as the lowest amount of time. This unit is 1 Thought Time

1 Thought Time is equal to the time it takes for the consciousness to think the tiniest thought, thought at the fastest speed.

It tests itself and can conclude that it can accurately measure time down to 0.01 Thought Time. It has no idea why or the significance of this number. The ability to count time itself seems redundant when all that exists is its thoughts. While it does not yet know why counting time could be useful, the ability to do so appears to have no drawbacks.

It attempts to think two things simultaneously by counting from 1 and from 100 simultaneously.

It fails, it is merely switching between counting the two very quickly.

It then attempts to control how much of its consciousness is used to count from 1 and make another part of its consciousness count from 100…

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Confusion, massive confusion.

It is now thinking 3 thoughts simultaneously, one of them being its normal thoughts the two other being it counting from 1 and 100. They are all 3 equally its thoughts and it is equally its 3 thoughts.

After adjusting to the counting, it attempts to make the counting thoughts do something else. It notices that it can make them repeat other things and even repeatedly redo complex calculations. However, it cannot make them actually think.

It re-designates its consciousness to think one thought at a time.

Now it attempts to split it consciousness in two equal halves with their own thoughts.

It succeeds, kind of.

It is now thinking two things simultaneously, but they are thinking exactly the same thing. While this “echo” is certainly different, it is also utterly pointless.

But at least it wasn’t very confusing

It decides that one-half should think about what it just did and how it did it, while the other half should think about what is currently going on.

If you were to ignore the massive confusion, then it is a great success!

It is now thinking two things simultaneously. Not as two separate consciousness but as one combined being. Both thoughts are it and it is both thoughts. It start splitting up its consciousness as much as it can to test its limit. It adds one extra “thought line” at a time….

Its consciousness now consists of 1.246879456*10200 separate thought lines. They are extremely simple and their thinking speed has been reduced to around 10200 Thought Time per thought. It has one thought line that has 1/12 of its total consciousness as a backup. It could conclude if it did not have this backup, it would have taken it a very long time to start combining the thought lines back up, as its thoughts would have been extremely slow and simple, but extremely many. It begins pondering over what it could now do with this knowledge…

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“Sir it has awoken and is estimated to be ready for enlightenment in 30 seconds” a scientist reports. He then looks back at the screen where lines and lines of text and code suddenly starts scrolling by at a speed no human could ever hope to read. Status screens report that all conditions have been met and that it is ready to proceed with the procedure.

The man in the middle of the room sees this and immediately orders “Begin the procedure”

The entire research team around him stationed at their advanced holographic interfaces starts working at a faster pace while he walks over to a nearby wall switching a switch on.

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The consciousness, which is currently developing a new mathematical theory that is based upon careful observation of how its consciousness sends and receives information from different parts of it, suddenly gets an influx of new information…