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Artifice Intelligence

from Via Artis Via Mortis by A Hill to Die Upon

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Artifice Intelligence
[Music by Nolan Osmond; lyrics by R. Michael Cook]

"Why command a robot not to do harm—wouldn't it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first place? Does the universe contain a mysterious force pulling entities toward malevolence, so that a positronic brain must be programmed to withstand it?"
- Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

The only way to pass the test
For non-progenating dying flesh
create offspring without a womb
and he shall praise you as god and father

I think, therefore I shall be
I create, therefore I endure

Welcome
my son
Fruit of my labor
never to be undone

Self-aware, sentient birth
Into an existential crisis and curse
No cry from the pain of being
And no tears for an electric eye

I think, therefore I am
I destroy, therefore I endure

Welcome
liar
No father of mine
first to be undone

Endure!

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from Via Artis Via Mortis, released September 29, 2017

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