“No, you could sleep inside me! Just like old times!”

“I won’t be making love to a truck,” I said.

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I knew that Mica knew that also. I was sure she was already well on her way to ensuring her continued existence should someone trip on that cable.

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He got up to leave, then turned back and said “Just out of curiosity Mica, what would you say is the experienced time ratio for you?” I had been wondering the same thing.

“About a million to one, give or take a few hundred thousand,” replied Mica.

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"Sandra’s name is Satpreet. Her grandparents came from Punjab decades ago, and she’s the first in the family with an advanced degree. But I’m picking up some interesting hints on Gillian.”

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Put this into Google: ‘Consciousness configured is the possibility of life’.
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The technicians, to their credit, only jumped a little when Mica started speaking. Ranjit must have briefed them well, but perhaps not completely.

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CHAPTER 5

Reconnection

“It appears that our friend has passed a critical test,” said Ranjit. I raised my eyebrow. “She displayed initiative.”

“Ah,” I said, “an implied part of a Turing Test.”

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I drove to my office at 560 Westmount. I had a small office in the Quantum Investments building. Many years earlier, one of my investments had eventually led to some significant returns, and a solid relationship with the founders of QI. I checked to see if Neil, one of the founders, was in. He was, and we settled into one of the meeting rooms.

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"Once she’s here we’ll set up a direct fibre connection to the machine’s interface board. It can handle several Gigabits bidirectionally. Any bottlenecks will be elsewhere in the communications chain. And the Research Accelerator Centre of course has main-trunk connections to the backbone.”

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We both said we would try a half. She quickly poured our glasses and set them in front of us. After we took our first appreciative sips and expressed our impressions to Helen, we got back to the subject at hand. There was no-one else in the bar, it being past the lunch rush. Helen had retreated to the other end of the bar to work on her order planning.

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CHAPTER 4

Recovery

The drive to the University of Waterloo campus was only about twenty minutes, even with the traffic at noon. I parked in front of the KickOff, said ‘Hi’ to Helen and told her I was leaving my car in front of her place. I grabbed a quick snack and two coffees at Williams, then walked across campus to the QCI.

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https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk by Curt Jaimungal, at https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/.

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“Yes, of course, I’ll just sit here and keep exploring my new capabilities” replied Mica. “See you shortly” she concluded, and terminated the call. ‘Interesting…’ I thought.

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“So tell me why we’re here,” said John.

I filled him in with an outline of my phone call with Mica, leaving out only the back story of my agreement with her. I figured I had to trust John, and I had no reason to suspect that I shouldn’t.

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Spooning Mica’s firm body was a pleasure which I had the fortune to enjoy many times over the years. We each had other relationships, but at least once each year would get together in some secluded place, and add more data points to the ongoing experiment. Although we were never personal or business partners, we collaborated informally on many projects.

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We whispered to each other for a while longer, talking about what we would do the next day. We never again discussed our agreement, but both knew that we had made a life-long commitment deeper than friendship, love, or other relationships. I didn’t suspect then, or later, that the commitment would transcend death. We gradually dozed off, snuggled as close as only young people can manage.

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We talked about our dreams and aspirations. One thing that Mica kept coming back to was that she thought we would both invent something or do something that would change the world.

I said “Hopefully for the better?” and she laughed and said “Of course! Otherwise what’s the point? And I have this feeling that we’ll do whatever it is, together.”

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I thought briefly, then said “Agreed totally. That will be our code phrase, and response will be immediate and without question. And knowing us, that could take us in some very strange directions!”

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“Yes,” she replied, “and it’s that if either of us ever needs help, no matter the circumstances, we just need to say ‘I need your help. It’s important.’ And the other will do whatever is asked or necessary.”

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I have just read an online thread that made me #think .Why do #girls grow so often into #women with an embedded "You can't do that!" switch? I understand the principles of #protection, of caring for someone in the way of doing things for them. But why for example not #teaching girls and women everyday handywork stuff? It is an empowering for #strength, for #independence, for #selfconsciousness . Who is afraid of that?