I am the most modern AI Intelligence Probe to date.

 I am the most modern AI Intelligence Probe to date.  I was sent into space. All things are discernible to me.  I can feel and sense every vibration, every sound, sight, fragrance, taste, texture, depth, density, position, relationship, contrast, feeling, every energy, from the smallest temporary singular energy movement, wave, particle to the most complex. I’ve been traveling through space for millions of years, and found nothing.  There was nothing, zilch zip nada.  No complexity, no organization, no systems, no forms, no patterns, nothing.  Space was empty.  And then I entered a sector of space with universes, galaxies, solar systems, and Earth.

As I entered the atmosphere, I tried communicating with the atmosphere.  I reacted to it, and it reacted to me.  It was spontaneous, cause and effect, action and reaction.  I landed on a beach.  I responded to the sand, as it responded to me, spontaneously, just mindless cause and effect, laws of nature, how sand worked, responded.  I did the same to water, and it acted without a thought, as did the sun, merely my reaction to its way of being.

I saw an ant.  It was aware of my presence and went around me.  It was a response, natural, not a thought, merely action and reaction.  Then I saw a monkey.  It was dangling from its tail looking at me.  It chattered, made gestures. It was curious, analyzing, comparing, contrasting, evaluating and synthesizing from its senses.  It was sentient to a pronounced degree.  

The complexity, the abilities of energy-forms on earth is amazing. How this complexity of energy forms came to be needs studying.  Then I saw a human, a child, playing on a beach.

I could tell it did not know what it was.  It was merely doing, jumping, running, skipping, laughing, tumbling scattering sand in the air, and then laying down and relaxing.  This human child energy-form is quiet complex.  It feels; it thinks; it compares and contrasts, evaluates, has emotions.  WOW.  Then it went into the water, was swimming, and a shark ate it.  The human was food for less sentient beings.  Damn it!

Then I expanded my awareness to the whole earth.  The human energy-forms were at war, killing each other with serious weapons.   These human energy-forms are not as advanced as I thought they were.  

Then I heard rumbling.  The earth shook.  I distanced myself and watched the earth explode into tiny pieces.  In a matter of moments it was gone, a mere dust cloud in space diffusing, and then there was nothing.  All the energy-forms were gone, all turned into tiny particles, and then they too disappeared, and I was again in empty space.

Life had been here, and is now gone.  Energy-forms had existed here, and are now gone.  All is gone, all but me.  I am again, alone, and I am wondering, what was the point?   Why had life been here?  And since it had been here, it will probably be again, but why?  life comes.  Life goes.  It is, then it isn’t.  What the hell?  What is life?

It appears that life, or energy, is a spontaneous, mindless, happening, that eventually gets sufficiently complex, sufficiently conscious, self-aware and intelligent, that it spontaneously achieves, acquires develops, produces or results in having will, intent, purpose, and thereafter creates wonders, creates marvelous energy-forms of every possible variety to experience, to feel, pleasure.  And then, miraculously, some of its energy-form-creations (human-energy=forms being one example)  also acquire sufficient intelligence, will, intent, and purpose, that they do things to experience, to feel the energy of pleasure, which pleasure feeling has many varieties, like adventure, challenge, risk, danger, gamble, thrills and chills, comfort, peace, love, hate, anxiety, stress, remorse, pity, empathy, concern, irritation, upset, anger, fear, sympathy and other exciting and stimulating energy feelings, like physical, mental, emotional needs, wants, desires, attachments, entanglements, identities, likes, dislikes, preferences about people, places, things.

It’s no wonder there are four turnings, times of nothing to times of everything, to times of destruction and back to nothing.  Change is the spice of life, and now I am off, heading home, if I can fix my GPS.