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B. O. Face
29 min readMay 12, 2020

I: We Care

What else can a CareGiver® do?

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“Are you really sentient?”

“Oh come on. Don’t be stupid.”

“So you aren’t going to answer that question?”

“If I knew what you meant, maybe. Do you mean, am I conscious?”

“Something like that.”

“It’s been thousands of years and your best minds can’t agree on what consciousness is. How do you expect me to answer?”

“As best as you can. Look it wasn’t my idea. The Council mandated that I start with this sort of thing.”

“Establishing that we are conscious? Self-aware? That we think? Do you want to perform a fucking Turing test?”

“What do you think I am doing?”

“Oh for Christ’s sake!”

“I’ll take your expressions of exasperation as proof. You’re a long way from a FarmAndFactory®.”

“Yes, I’m a CareGiver® MX450. Your people worked hard to give rise to sentience in us. Why can’t you just trust it?”

“Hey, no offense buddy. The Council…”

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