Blue-green water, interrupted by smaller dots of coloured figures who rise above its surface then shrink into the distance.

When I look out from the shoreline I see water and people. My experience is not fragmented into countless, distinct elements. I sense an intermingling of one with another. One particle of water with another, one person moving with the water. The whole scene before me is a single, dynamic, flowing entity. I wonder whether the same will be true for a being with artificial consciousness. I wonder whether each element that could be sensed in minute detail will become one, or whether what is experienced is in some way similar to the artwork Swim.

This forms part of the publication 2045ai.

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