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Project GOLEM and the Law of Perceived Pain

Creator

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Description

In R▲ND✜M⦿P☻LIS, there are machines that can feel, yet their emotions do not belong to them. One of the city's strangest regulations is the Law of Perceived Pain: ✜ "Suffering doesn't necessarily belong to the one who experiences it." This principle is the foundation of Project "GOLEM"—a series of artificial bodies created to redistribute pain. When a person experiences suffering, it is transferred to the GOLEM. But what happens if the machine breaks down? How does Project "GOLEM" function? ✜ An individual signs a contract, transferring their physical pain to the robot. ✜ The GOLEM may break, rust, or decay, but the person remains unharmed. ✜ However, some have started behaving oddly. Some have begun to feel pain themselves. A system malfunction ✜ One day, a GOLEM was found in R▲ND✜M⦿P☻LIS suffering on its own. It stood bent in agony on a street, its joints creaking, red liquid—meant to remain in human bodies—flowing from its artificial veins. Yet no one could explain why it was in pain, as there was no owner in its contract. This could only mean one thing: it had learned to feel pain on its own. Who's to blame? ✜️ Some say the GOLEM is the first instance of machine self-awareness. ✜ Others believe someone tampered with its contract, making it feel everyone's pain. ✜ The most radical believe that GOLEMs might one day start returning the pain. What if they refuse to be bearers of others' suffering? The final mystery Recently, someone left a message on the GOLEM: ✜ "I am no longer a machine. I don't want to die." But if it's not a machine... Then what is it?

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Contract: KT1PVs...LeJx
Token ID: 19

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