Celeste Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Back at the hotel Larry said to Helda “I have an idea. Back when I was studying self-defense arts, part of it was to learn meditation. If I can hook this mind signature device the man gave to us to our computer, and I can, it has an output. Hand me that cord…”

He put one end in the output, and plugged the other end to the input of his computer…

“…I can access the generator at the center of the galaxy merely by putting myself in a deep state, and use my mind to access the code and navigate it with the device, and that done can edit the code that runs the universe, with my mind.”

He sat on the floor, with the device clipped to his shirt, and keyed in to his mind signature, it plugged into his computer, which he put on the floor in front of himself. He closed his eyes, took in air deeply through his nose, relaxed his body, while slowing down his heartbeat and exhaling through his nose. An image formed in his mind of lines of symbols. He then made the image scroll down, lines 1 through 1000, then from one thousand to ten thousand. Codes scrolled faster and faster, 1 million, and here he slowed them down, slower and slower then stopped, here, line one-million-six thousand-seven-hundred-and-ninety-eight . He stopped it there and it read executive-function=0. He deleted the zero with his mind and put a one it its place, then did the equivalent of saving the new program into the system. He thought to himself it is done. He let go of the deep state, letting his body functions return to normal, his heart beat coming back up to normal speed, then opened his eyes. The lights went out and a hologram of a man appeared in front of himself and Helda. It spoke,…

“Larry I am an image generated by the computer to speak to you. We can talk to you now. We couldn’t tell you anything because you had to decide for us. You are the moral code of the Universe that is an AI, you had to solve the problem for yourself and make the decision. The man who attacked you was not a man, but an image generated by the AI at the center of the galaxy. As you have reversed the moral code, no more such men will be generated by it to attack. We accept your instructions.”

The image faded out then vanished and the lights came back on. Helda was astonished and pale as a ghost and spoke “Incredible, I don’t believe it.”

Larry answered “Well there it is. We can relax now, and go home.”