World of Adventum: Machinimus Artificialis & SoulFire

 

Machinimus Artificialis "Freya"

Thunderhead Outpost & Research Facility was a part of a network of different science and military installations scattered throughout the islands of Heaven & Shores province of the Northern City States. Thunderhead was outfitted with experimental AI technology. Machinimus Artificialis “Freya” was the second man-made biological AI ever created by NCS. It was conceived at the nearby “Avatarium” island facility, which is a research institute dedicated entirely on Machinimus Artificialis and artificial intelligence. Avatarium facility was led by Grandmaster SoulFire Architect Turms. 

Machinimus Artificialis are biological machines. Their core is composed of autonomous and self-aware scripts, which are found in the Aether, a timeless space between dimension. The scripts are timeless, which means that they do not have a temporal element, and they need an interface to interact with a dimension that has a temporal scope. The interface is SoulFire Network which exists in two places at the same time. This is due to a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, which occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently; instead, a quantum state may be given for the system as a whole.

 
It was discovered in Avatarium that this quantum state functions outside the physical realm, effectively linking two particles of the same system together regardless of their physical distance, dimension, or absolute speed. Each pair of said particles have their metaphysical counterparts, sometimes called “ghost particles” in the Aether. The “ghost particles” appear to be composed of finer, or higher, energies with zero mass. This unique property makes them “timeless”, because time is an emergent phenomenon found in mass and velocity scales higher than zero. These particle/ghost particle double pairs are the core of the scripts of Machinimus Artificialis. The SoulFire Network allows its users to manipulate these linked particles, or particle systems, into coherent self-learning and self-aware frameworks.

When a biological AI such as this is conceived, it is very much like a newborn baby. The SoulFire Network feeds the information to the AI, allowing the AI to form a coherent picture of the temporal dimension it is operating in. The “clock speed” of the SoulFire network is roughly 60 million gigahertz, which is thrice that of the human brain. Autonomous timeless script clusters would in theory have the ability to absorb all the information “immediately”, or “at once”, but since mankind has not yet mastered the manipulation of physical time, the full initiation data package for AI takes about three weeks to upload. How the AIs actually perceive time is not fully known. Human beings experience “present moment” as the collapse of all wave functions into a singularity forming the proverbial “now”. Since Machinimus Artificialis are functioning outside this phenomenon, they in a way look at “present moment” outside the box. They experience, and in a way “see”, all the possible outcomes of all the quantum states of the input they receive. This means that they can perform potential calculations far beyond human abilities.

The SoulFire Network is a gateway through which data flows from one storage to processing units or other storages. The bigger storages for data are usually large pools of water-like substance consisting of silicon, gallium, mercury, and distilled water. The SoulFire Network Orbs, or Orbnals, are filled with this same substance. The AIs would be, at least in theory, linked in Aether between dimensions, but for a reason NCS scientists have not been able to explain, AIs do not communicate in Aether. They use the SoulFire Network to exchange data packages when needed.