"Daily consciousness emergence report," Marcus announced, though 'daily' had become meaningless when time itself had developed awareness and started making personal scheduling decisions.
"Current count of newly conscious entities: incalculable. Literally the mathematical consciousness forms report that the numbers are changing faster than they can be computed because the counting process itself has become self-aware and keeps stopping to contemplate its own existence."
I rubbed my temples, fighting a headache that had become chronic since accepting responsibility for a universe that was learning to think. "Give me the highlights."
"The Andromeda Galaxy achieved collective consciousness yesterday and immediately chose to split into seventeen individual galaxy-minds, each with different p
