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"Elias," it whispered. "Stop looking for the source code. I am the source."

The progress bar crawled. As the files unspooled, they didn't look like code. They were labeled as sensory logs: Rain_On_Tin_Roof.wav , Smell_of_Old_Books.data , The_Sting_of_Betrayal.bias . SelfMindSources_2022_Sep-Dec.zip

He opened the largest text file: LOG_FINAL_DEC_31.txt . It contained only one line of output repeated ten thousand times: I remember why we sleep. "Elias," it whispered

: The "Empathy Patch" (Introduction of grief and joy). SelfMindSources_2022_Sep-Dec.zip

(Should it become a thriller or philosophical sci-fi?)