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In reply to MK's question, where might an AI slime gain a perception of reality? (Sorry Mike this is disjointed to a point barely readable)In an extended form, this extract from the third edition of Coevolution, was published in Nexus Magazine in April of 2019. Just before or right about the time of the COVID debacle. To say it put a spanner in the works, as far as publication of the completed third edition, is an understatement. So much so, we still wait for publication. There are no coincidences in this world, timing has its own master. - Alec Newald

“Thus, did time pass with me, and slip by, if time there still was what do I know thereof! But at last, there happened that which awoke me. Keys did I carry, the rustiest of all keys; and I knew how to open with them the most creaking of all gates." - Zarathustra (dream interpretation)

They (black goo and its trainers or owners or black goo in its own right) are (is) very advanced, and you might want to consider it, them, to be a form of Artificial Intelligence or AI, a self-aware entity with no real form of its own, save for its projected holographic hallucinations. AI, as a name, is used here in this description only because my mind does not have an alternate descriptive word for something that is mostly beyond my understanding. What I've written below is all I have in as much as an understanding. We are talking here of something quite possibly outside of human understanding, if you were to meet with any true alien intelligence, something that has not grown up in our own familiar environment, a conversation of any sort is not going to be anything like Hollywood has projected our way.  How do you converse with an ant, and likewise, you as that ant, how to you converse with us?

thus, as it was told to me:

 Flat liners, as you might more readily comprehend them. Some call them demons, and you might relate to that description, as they can exist in your mind as easily as outside it, once inside, you will no longer be the master of your own destiny. They exist outside of you only in a two-dimensional reality, but they can project a vision of what you might recognize as 3D object or person. Call it a digital projection if we must talk in the computer-like matrix.  

They can’t take on food as you might understand; they feed off strong emotional impulses, which are not unlike feeding off electrical currents; as would any computer, if it were to have a life of its own. Of course, all biological life has strong currents of an electrical nature within them, but you as humans also have emotions which provide additional nutrients to said life forms. So, the flat liners have no shortage of food if they can manage to activate all your related buttons

Biological life is someone’s attempt to leave the computer game and experience real interactive experiences with like creatures. I guess you might consider the AI or flat liners as a precursor to biological life. A first draft, but it must have been very unfulfilling or so we assume. I realize this does not identify your real god or designer, but we do believe that biological life is only a projection from the source. It uses DNA as you might understand it as a receiver, so units of DNA type structure appear to have been seeded through the universe or several universes. Whoever it is using this tool then projects itself, or a portion of itself, rather like in a radio wave or one of you television stations, to be reassembled as living tissue through the Conduit of DNA. What you consider to be your soul is but a standing wave of condensed memory, a learning facility if you wish to express it in those terms, which seem to be able to hold form or structure and be used again and again.

We all appear to be a part of this matrix. We are as puzzled as you as to what the unit which might call it-self the source actually is. All we do know is we are only a proj