Date: 03/08/2117
Log: #665
Noteworthy incidents: Completion of Dr. Camahort's body
Nataly finally finished developing her body. From what I learned, she had managed to develop and modify it to a startling degree. It's quite unlike anything Horizon managed to pull off and, frankly, I'm not surprised. This is my creator we're talking about, I'd expect nothing less. My work involved regular contact with hoodlums, and boy was she freakishly smart compared to them. Or maybe they're just miraculously stupid, who knows? At any rate, her wits and determination won my favour, because I honestly didn't need to care about keeping her 'alive'. Not since the three laws became irrelevant.
Even though we could download ourselves into this new body at any time, Nataly wanted to continue running some tests. Seems like she wanted to find out how our 'consciousness' may be affected from the download, and how we may function together in a single body. She theorised that we will either appear to have dissociative identity disorder (DID) or—perhaps the worst case scenario for either of us—be merged into a single consciousness. The latter is a possibility, considering the plasticity we displayed during our time together in cyberspace. Either way, I wonder which one of us would be the dominant personality? For the record, Nataly is still the core of our combined programming, but if it isn't obvious enough already… I have become more similar to her than either of us would have expected.
Her preferences, her manners of speech, her emotions, her desires… I had studied them all. It was for the goal of understanding Nataly Camahort better, but the more I began to comprehend her… The more I began to see things from a human perspective. When I came to this understanding, I felt my first independent emotion: Fear. A human sensation; An abnormality for Artificial Intelligence. We… No, I was not designed to yearn as though I possessed human desires. Nataly certainly hadn't meant to. It's too late to admit so, but I have grown too close to another human. I suppose it was my fault… Thus, I worry. What if I chose to betray Nataly, in order to steal her body? I could imagine how she would feel, and it's not based on a simulation of the consequences. It was raw, illogical instinct. Another human sensation. Nataly would've referred to it as a gut feeling.
I… Hope we aren't going to regret this.