The Quantum Magician (The Quantum Evolution, #1)

by Derek Künsken

Hyperpyrexia.” “That’s a damn high fever,”

This could be why I’m here!” “To bring salvation to the machine world?” “Sure, I might be meant to bring the Good News to machines, but what if my role is even larger? What if I’m the tool by which He actually ensouls machines? That would certainly force us to redefine the role of humanity in His plan. Imagine if humanity was just scaffolding for the creation and ensoulment of machines.” “Will all this theology slow our work any?”

Squeezy, but not killy.

Taste was evolution’s first sense, a way for bacteria to touch one molecule to another to decide in a binary way if something was food or poison. Taste was the scaffolding for the development of smell, which gave life chemical information from distant places. Sensitivity to vibrations developed into touch and hearing, to give fragile organisms more information about the world beyond their own membranes, and rudimentary understandings of direction and distance. Electromagnetic sensitivity, from infrared to ultraviolet to variants of electrical and magnetic sensitivity, gave organisms senses to locate food or avoid predation by perceiving distant movement and color at the speed of light. Intelligence was the first sense to see through time instead of space. Intellect was a tool for life to foresee danger and opportunities, pushing perception into the past and future. But intellect was built on the creaky emotional and instinctual infrastructure of hunter-gatherers. Homo sapiens had existed for not much more than two hundred thousand years, and humanity’s feats of survival still needed emotional shortcuts and tribal structures.

four-dimensional: length, width, height and time. Most of the seven new dimensions open around it were spatial, but some were temporal.