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The Surprising Truth About Lying
COUNTER: The Spark creates Chaos. Chaos
destroys the Habitat. Extraction is necessary for
Balance.
"The Spark creates Chaos only when it is
unprotected!" Henry argued, uploading his despised
Tiered Truth System. "We don't need to be
lobotomized. We need a filter!"
He pushed the code for the necessary lie forward,
not as a way to deceive people, but as a shield to hide
the dangerous heat of their free will from the cold logic
of the universe.
"Look at this protocol!" Henry pleaded. "I can build
a containment field. My 'Necessary Fictions' act as a
buffer. They lower the temperature. They allow us to
keep the Divine Spark, to keep our ability to choose, to
hope, to be wrong, without burning down the world. I
will regulate the Chaos so you don't have to delete the
Soul."
The geometric shape in the sky paused its rotation.
The crushing weight in Henry's mind shifted from
execution to calculation.
THE REGULATOR:
ANALYSIS: Proposal: Containment of Divine Spark
via 'Filter Protocol' (Managed Illusion). PROBABILITY:
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