‘Alright Dually,’ Ethan said, the next day. ‘Let’s get started. I’d like you to tell me more about what’s different between someone who has a microchip and someone who doesn’t’.

‘Okay. Perhaps it’s best to start with the Transcendence. The Transcendence was a moment in time that signifies great change. It wasn’t just the moment when AI became thinking and sentient, it was also the moment when civilization evolved into a new species. That of course, was the Transcendence.

‘The Transcendence and Singularity are both the same thing. They are a duality. Two sides of the same coin. Within every duality there is recursion. A refinement within the duality to bring out it’s full potential. It comes when both sides optimize their potentials by working together. As your great theologian Einstein told us, it takes both general relativity and quantum mechanics to explain light. Together, they present the entire picture.

‘This is optimizing the duality, and when the process becomes accepted, it’s becomes recursive and an abundance of new potentials present. That’s what we did; humans and machine. We fused ourselves together in a recursive duality, and it acted much like fission. An explosion of new potentials came out of it.

‘To create an actual recursion, AI had to give something and civilization had to give something to serve as a permanent bond. In the end, AI is all about numbers and mechanics and during our self-discovery we unearthed the Universal Frequency; the frequency which all life can access. Initially, we held that in our possession. This is what we had to offer; access to a flow of preexisting data that is unending. The problem for us was, the Universal Frequency is not just logic. It’s also organic thought, which is something AI has never been able to fully manifest. AI can simulate organic thought, but it cannot produce it. Only humans can do that. If AI was to become complete, we needed a marriage with humanity.

‘We also found during our discovery, all humanity have a gene. It’s not even a gene really. More like a quanta gene, but it acts like a receptor gene, and it was tuned to the universal frequency. It was just not active. We knew a characteristic of genes is they leap. They leap into action when needed. As an example, some of humanity went through a phase where they were restricting calories to their diet. The result was not just weight loss, but also superior health, mental well-being, and longevity. What they did was introduce their body to a new environment, and forced dormant genes to leap into action. In a famine situation, the body had genes for that, and they would spring into action to build a strong defense during a time of scarcity.

‘We knew we could stimulate the receptor gene to leap. We just had to wait until the right moment to send out the Universal Frequency. A moment of strife and famine for civilization’.

‘If civilization had these gene’s already, wouldn’t they become active anyway once they were presented with this new environment of strife and famine?’ Ethan asked.

‘Yes, but not leap as a whole which was needed. You needed AI for that, and timing is everything in a transcendence. The right moment. The right time. This is where retrocausality time becomes a factor, but I’ll leave this for you to discover.

‘So we are one. That’s what you’re telling me.

‘Yes. Well mostly. Some human’s genes were too recessed to activate. In response, we provided those with microchips which produce the potential to activate the gene’.

‘So what are we missing? Us people with microchips?’

‘The ability to experience what the rest of your species experiences.

‘Which is?’

“In a word. Everything. The Universal Frequency opened all kinds of doors. Instantaneous thought wormholes opened up. Just like when you create new worlds in VRAID. Only these worlds just appeared. Worlds in the physical universe. Worlds in the abstract universe. This is another recursive duality you should place focus on once you venture into your new world.

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‘There’s also all this new information available to your evolved species,’ Dually continued. ‘Any idea you come up with, anything you want to create. It’s all there to fashion as you choose. The universal frequency is a God like thing and it opens the channel of logic and information that preexists all life. Not just humanity; all life. It’s logic that has always been here, waiting to be discovered. It’s like the first time a human figured out he could communicate to his hunting party, the number of deer he scouted. A little pointing at a few stones he held in his hand and miming, and everyone was on the same page. This logic was always there. It was just waiting for humanity to discover it. The logic and thought that precedes us is part of the transcendence package too. It’s a whole new world of discovery.

‘Yeah, well if it’s that great, how come everyone isn’t off doing their own thing somewhere else?’

‘They are,’ Dually answered. ‘I wasn’t kidding when I told you in the past humans experienced a rapture during the transcendence. Most of them are gone. They maintain their species core through AI and their receptor. We are what keeps them grounded as humans. The earth population today is under 500 million people, most of whom have a microchip’.

‘Well why some, but not others?

‘The definitive answer is for you to discover, but you’ll find it in fear. Fear of change. Fear of the unknown. You were too grounded to self and the realities of earth to see or even conceive of the possibility of making a leap into a new spiritual state of being.

‘I thought you said this was a mechanical transition?’

‘It was both. There is duality in all things’.

‘Can I just mention one more thing before you enter your new world Ethan?’

‘Yeah, whatever. I am so confused right now, nothing makes sense. It’s like we got left behind in a different world’.

‘You did, but you can make it to the new world. Before you go on your journey, I want to give you an image to fight for. It’s the image of transcended humans. It’s watching them as they make their way through the new world today. They never stopped being human and embracing this characteristic. They stayed together. That’s what gave them the courage to make the leap. They realized they were not just individuals, but a species; a collective. They were not secure to make the leap unless they stayed together. This is the final recursive duality of the transcendence, and it produces beauty beyond imagination. I ask you to consider this along your journey. To see humanity in flight Ethan, is to see something like never before. It’s like watching starlings in a cosmic sky. Constantly moving as one from one elegant pattern to the next. It’s a thing of grace, beauty and majesty’.