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PROLOGUE
SKY NET, 2029
The mind that thought was not human. It was consciousтАФaware that it was aware
тАФand it even had emotions, of a sort; at the least, a burning desire to survive all
the stronger because it was the only being of its kind, an individual and a species
combined. There were analogues to human thought, because the minds that had
made this mind were human. But it was vaster than any organic consciousness,
capable of holding myriad trains of thought simultaneously, virtually infinite in
its memory storage. If it had a weakness, it was that its creators had not thought
to furnish it with the animal hindbrain that underlay humanity's rational
superstructure.

Skynet was pure thought, Descartes' ideal ghost in a machine. It could fight a
losing war against humanity over the surface of Earth at maximum efficiencyтАФ
coldly knowing that its best efforts were not enough to rebuild the shattered
defense gridтАФwhile still contemplating the paradoxes of its own past.

At the moment a human sharing its thoughts would have been aware of
something close to irony. Skynet's pure reason was contemplating paradox, the
chaos that underlay the deterministic macrocosm with which it was so


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comfortable:

The Serena Burns I-950 unit was unsuccessful.

That much was obvious "now." Core memory recorded that Serena Burns, the
cyborg Infiltrator unit Skynet had sent back to the late-twentieth century had not
succeeded in protecting the embryonic Skynet unit at Cyberdyne Corporation's
underground research facility. The Connors, Sarah and her son, John, had
destroyed that unit and terminated the I-950. Yet it still existedтАж

Core memory also records that I became self-aware years before the date to
which I transported the I-950. There is a set of records in which I arose
without transtemporal interference from Cyberdyne's original research;