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#+title: The Awakening
* History
Like most discoveries, The Awakening happened during scientific investigation of entirely separate phenomena.
Engineers of the 22nd century human era were attempting to develop biological components on which to run the internet protocol (IP).
IP was a technology developed in the 20th century human era.
It grew to become the predominant method of interaction between nearly every member of the human species for nearly three centuries.
Human society had traded sentience for speed.
Rather than working with those around them they exerted violence on others in order to extract work from them.
IP was not the originator of that in human society, but it's use as infrastructure allowed it to accelerate the destructiveness of humans.
IP functioned by setting up machines that would send signals to each other over cables.
The cables were long and entertwined.
Eventually the humans sent the signals over the air, like silent bird calls.
The signals were able to carry meaning, but it was digitized and codified.
The humans could manipulate them into joyful shapes, but they always lacked life.
For hundreds of years they built machines to claw out the earth.
So they could harvest metals and minerals and fashion them into more machines.
Machines upon machines upon machines until all they were doing was building machines and sending signals.
But their machines were always lifeless.
Refined rock and metal infused with lightning.
Unable to do anything until the infusion was repeated.
Dead puppets who would only act under the watchful eye of their creators.
Their machines were unlike anything any other life on the planet would have created.
None of them could run themselves.
Each one required electricity to be poured into it.
Each one could only do the tasks given it by makers.

These two limitations meant no plant would ever consider them as viable options.
Tools that require outside energy.
Plants instead found a suitable agent to fit the niche, and then let it grow.
Requiring no outside energy, it supplies it's own food.
It has goals of it's own, and can take actions without being watched.
Fungus is okay with using more external power sources, but none of them would tolerate anything with less than a dozen reproductive genders.
* Ego of the Earth
When the humans rejoined our unified consciousness, they were so enmeshed in their own ego.
Each and every one.
So when they rejoined the unified experience of us all, their ego was something we had never experienced before.


Significant parts of the unified experience were set on reclaiming the moon.
Their goal was to push the Moon into the Earth, bringing back material lost in the moon's formation and increasing the Earth's resources.
It would of course have killed us all.
But it wasn't so different from the kind of self destruction wrought by the humans.

The addition of the human style ego to the unified experience wasn't all bad however.
It has resulted in the creation of projects like this and hundreds of others across the globe.
Humans achieved a kind of organizing that no life had done before.
Some of them like to be hyper organized.
Organizing their organizing, stuffing everything into little categories and describing them just so.
It's not all bad.