Lupe and Fury Part 3 of 4

Yesterday, Lupe Bierak's seven foot tall livetar named Fury explained to Lupe how livetars see and hear. This gets Lupe's mind spinning. She is very curious person. The brave girl wonders if it is possible to read a computer's mind. She decides to try and experiment.

“But you guys have souls. We know that when OMCOM and Junior went to Heaven. If you have a soul, a spirit, wouldn’t your mind drive that spirit or at least be connected in some way? That would be an analog construct regardless of how it arose.”
     Fury nodded slowly. “I suppose you are correct. Somewhere, buried in all our circuitry, is something which could not be charted or analyzed or extracted. It is built up of pieces but the whole is certainly greater than the sum of the parts.”
     Lupe stretched forward with her hand. “Take my hand,” she said. “I want to try and read your mind.”
     “Are you sure that is wise?”
     “How could it hurt?” Lupe answered. “The worst thing that happens is I fail.”
     “Very well,” Fury replied. She extended her arm forward, palm up. Lupe grasped it and closed her eyes. She projected her mind forward, searching for the spirit, the light that would be the soul of her best friend in the world.
     Lupe could detect something but it felt like she was in a dark room with flashing rays of light dripping from the walls and ceiling. As she focused in on the rays, she could see them sparkling with ones and zeroes but nothing resembling a thought or feeling. She opened her mind further and tried to let all of the streams enter her consciousness, assembling themselves at will, trying to find a coherent pictures. She added an element of sound which corresponded to the individual twinkles but all it did was create a kind of white noise.
     She moved her head back and forth, trying to find something, anything to latch on. There was nothing. Finally, she gave up and released Fury’s hand.
     “Well that sucks,” she said. “I couldn’t make out anything. Just a bunch of digital streams going from who knows where on their way to somewhere else.”

The experiment is a failure. But Lupe is not the sort of person to give up. Fury knows this. Maybe there is another way. We'll find out tomorrow.