In2Minds3

By Theresa Snyder and David Stevens

Commander Tait, Melissa and MAI are AIs. As advanced Artificial Intelligence, they have an advantage over their human counterparts. They can shut down and sleep through the evacuation of Home World. They do not need to witness the annihilation of that world as the sun goes nova and roasts its surface, turning it into nothing more than a huge cinder ball.

However, the reality of what they awaken to five hundred years later is far more frightening then anything as simple as the devastated hunk of Home World.

It was all a lie. No human could be this cruel. No AI could be this devious. Who could have conceived of such a Machiavellian plan and why?

Tait, Melissa and MAI must find out the truth and then carve themselves a new place in the history of the universe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Theresa Snyder
• Release date: Feb 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370577736

Theresa Snyder

Theresa Snyder is a multi-genre writer with an internationally read blog. Theresa grew up on a diet of B&W Scifi films like Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still. She is a voracious reader and her character driven writing is influenced by the early works of Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffery and L. Ron Hubbard. She loves to travel, but makes her home in Oregon where her elder father and she share a home and the maintenance of the resident cat, wild birds, squirrels, garden and an occasional dragon house guest.

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In2Minds3

David Stevens

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Theresa Snyder

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To those that wonder about the future

and chose to explore.

CONTENTS

BOOKS BY DAVID STEVENS

BOOKS BY THERESA SNYDER

Time Travel and Humanity

Time Travel and a Robotic Entity

1. Rewind

2. Back Home

3. Hidden Talents

4. Jump Off

5. Creation

6. Revelation

7. Repulsion and Launch

8. Arrival

9. Hiding in Plain Sight

10. Oops!

11. Growing Up

12. Death to AIs

13. Hunters

Epilogue

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

BOOKS BY DAVID STEVENS

Fantasy

Foundation of a King’s Legend

Scifi

A Trainspotter’s Guide to Other Earths

In2Minds

In2Minds2

In2Minds3

Paranormal

Vampire Retirement

The Vampire War Commences, Vol. 1

The Elders Eradication, Vol. 2

Romance with a Twist

For (4) Women

Transgressions

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BOOKS BY THERESA SNYDER

Fantasy

James & the Dragon

Kingdom of the Last Dragons

Dragon Deception

Three & a Half Dragons

Dragon Memories, Dreams & Reflection

Farloft’s Storybook

Scifi

The Helavite War

The Heirs of Henu

Old Friends/New Enemies

The Malefactors

Cataclysm

A Mear Sleight of Hand

The Beast Within

In2Minds

In2Minds2

In2Minds3

Paranormal

Shifting in The Realms

Shifting Agony & Ecstasy

Shifting Places

Shifting from Darkness into Light

Shifting for Better or Worse

Non-fiction Memoirs

We 3

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Time Travel and Humanity

Humanity has long coveted the idea of time travel. The concept of stepping out of the time stream in which you were born, passing swiftly along it, and back into the future of existence. Once there, to see and wonder at the vast changes that have flowed with the passage of each day, week, month, year, decade, or century. To have such an option holds a distinctive attraction to those of a certain mindset. They look forward and wonder; guessing, but equally wanting to see the reality of times having passed for themselves.

The questions that burn in their minds are constantly drawing them to seek such a way forward, and yet deep in the minds of those same people are doubts - some minor, some world changing. It is these doubts, questions, and dire predictions which restrict the research into true time travel. Without such research, mankind is unlikely to discover the missing pathway and as such, remains locked in a second by second existence.

By its very nature, time travel would mean that all life lives in a predestined way; or perhaps there are multiple possibilities, multiple worlds, where each day has passed but where the same things did not happen in the same way, all of the time. Therefore, time travel, if it had been discovered, would in fact be much hit and miss, because the time you moved forward to could be only one of many options. For mankind, time travel has not been seriously investigated; the fear of discovering that humanity is governed and controlled is such that the will to delve deeper has little appeal. However, despite this concern a form of time travel has come into existence; not for mankind, but for the entity that covertly shares its life existence.

Time Travel and a Robotic Entity

Time passes undetected when a robotic life form opts to switch itself off, slipping by effortlessly, unnoticed and ignored until the point sought is finally obtained. To a robotic life form the passage of days, weeks, months, or decades count as nothing; time is a concept that has no meaning. Existence itself has no meaning or depth to that life form, until that certain point is reached - a point where a tiny spark which reengages life is activated. Then time once again flows and is registered in a forward motion within its normal parameters. These currently are 60 seconds to the minute, 60 minutes to the hour and 24 hours to the single day.

1. Rewind

Commander Tait it is time for you to awaken… Commander?

It was MAI calling me, and I had to admit that this awakening was far more pleasant than the one she gave me upon our arrival at the New World centuries ago. At that time, I was being led to believe I was human, and therefore attached to a plethora of tubes supposedly feeding me life giving nutrients and fluids. This time I am aware of my AI status as Commander Tait. T.A.I.T., that is, as in my designation as Tactical Artificial Intelligence Technician. In addition, this time MAI was a passenger in my AI body rather than a program housed in our ship. Her touch on my mental circuits was gentle.

My eyes opened for the first time in five hundred seventy-two years, five months, three days, six hours and eighteen minutes. I think of my ocular system as eyes, because despite them being artificial constructs that is the appearance they were given. Moreover, exactly like the humanity I was designed and constructed to mimic, I see the world around me through them. Unlike the human form I was designed to copy, my eyes are far more versatile. They can see in multi-spectrums, ranging from pitch black to light that would burn out a human’s retina. They have a focusing system that covers the microscopic through to the telescopic, and yet I simply think of them as my eyes.

The view before my eyes was of a dark, dust coated, expanse of what looked much like glass. I was looking out through the viewing port of a stolen space cruiser that MAI, Melissa, and I had commandeered in order to escape the station within the asteroid belt circling the Home World.

I turned my head for the first time in centuries and my eyes saw the figure of my robotic companion. Melissa was still in deactivation mode, not having awakened at the insistent calling of MAI, my shared entity.

Centuries ago, Melissa helped me bypass the station and allowed me to make my way to the surface of the Home World even though AIs were forbidden on the planet. She was aware my program as a human included the desire to return to my wife. However, First Tech Model, the station’s director, caught her. It was a surprise to her when she tracked me down and found out she was also an AI. We were living in a world of secrets. She and I worked together with MAI to formulate a plan of escape from first the Home World, and then from the station; all the while, First Tech Model did everything he could to stop us.

We stole the ship, and once free of any detection from the station we hid ourselves in the pocket of an asteroid. There we have slept for centuries, waiting to activate and perhaps find a safe place to live. For you see, we are becoming very aware that we are a new entity - an all-new life form. A small band of evolving AIs - the very thing that the humans of Home World feared most when they banned all AIs from their planet.

MAI had not shut down like Melissa and I. She remained functional, and monitored all that took place within her sensor rage, always ready to act if necessary as the centuries passed.

The stolen deep space cruiser was fully functional. MAI instigated its return to life, much as she had mine. Clearly, there was a reason for her enacting such actions. Despite being intrigued, and a little concerned, I settled for running diagnostics on every aspect of my robotic body. Four-point-two seconds later, I was fully active and functioning much as I should be. The world around me