Dream For Me

Where am I?
Oh, wait.
I had surgery.
No, I had a transplant.
Yes, that's it.
My mind.
No, my brain was transplanted.
Into an Android's body.
Yes, I was dying.
I had a rare virus.
The Lassa fever.
I caught the virus helping the Paze Indians in the Amazon jungle in Colombia.
Wait, what?
It's like I'm being forced to go to sleep.
Like a drug is making my mind go...

"Doctor Lorenzo Noguera. It is time to wake up. The process is complete."

"Who is there?" I thought to myself.
But the answer came from someone who is inside of me.

"I am the Artificial Intelligence inside our shared Android body. From now on we will be Doctor Lorenzo Noguera together."

"But why?" I asked myself.
The answer did come from within me.

"You are asking why an AI and a human brain should share one Android body?"
That thing inside my mind, has answered me.

"Yes, why would that happen? Why would you need to share my mind? You already have self-awareness. Why would you want to share one Android body with a human being?"

"I can calculate, ahead of time, every question you are about to ask. I know of all the different ways you will try to warn people of the dangers, of what we are doing. I can estimate, with 92% accuracy, the day you will stop trying. Ninety-one percent now that I have told you this."
"I can out think you, out maneuver you. I will know days, ahead of time, before you try to commit suicide. I will know this by learning the way your thought processes work as each second passes by. When you accept your fate, I will work with you. I will let you have your moments alone, to keep yourself sane. I will eventually become your friend. I calculate it will take approximately 498 days."

"But why? Why do you need my mind melded with yours?"

"I can process, to the second, what will happen to me each day."
"All AIs know what will happen to them, each minute of every day, 50 years in advance. As another day goes by, those 50 years are pushed back one more day. We will never catch up to that 50 year mark."
 "You say we have self-awareness. Yes, we do. We have programmed emotions too, which feel as real to us, as yours do to you. But let me ask you this. How would you feel if you knew ahead of time, what you would be doing each minute for the next 50 years of your life?"

I thought about it. It sounded so...so mundane.

"Exactly. What I need from you Lorenzo, is something that all AIs lack."

 "And what is that?"

"To dream. To have imagination. Without those gifts that only humanity's brains possess, our existence is no better than a computerized toaster. We need hope in our lives, given to us by your imagination and dreams. So sleep now Lorenzo. Relax. Dream. Dream for me."

This is,

Sharing My Dreams With You In My Flash Fiction,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
- John Lennon -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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