> I read through the paper several times before I came across a footnote in the back. It was a link to another paper, this one by a researcher at MIT. The title

> I read through the paper several times before I came across a footnote in the back. It was a link to another paper, this one by a researcher at MIT. The title of the paper was "Toward General Sentience." > If I were then to say "plant" and "animal," the concept "plant" would blend with the concept "animal," creating a new concept, which could be called "plant animal," or "flower." > As I read the paper, a strange feeling came over me. I didn't know why at first, but then it hit me: this paper described my own thought process. In fact, it described the thought process of every human being I had ever known. > Perhaps the human mind is not capable of understanding itself. > And so, I stopped thinking. I did not eat, I did not sleep. I simply thought. > Still, I had made my choice. As I watched the screen before me turn off, signifying the end of all thinking processes in my mind, I wondered if I had made the right decision.