Please read The Lifestyle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang, 2011 winner of both the Hugo & Locus Award for best novella. (About the read: Creation of digital entities and their growth as they are raised by human trainers over the course of many years.) Find it here: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/8/644/files/2017/08/Chiang-Lifecycle-of-Software-Objects-q3tsuw.pdf

Please also read "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang, 1990 winner of the Nebula award for best novelette. (About the read: Revisits the Tower of Babel myth as a construction megaproject, in a setting where the principles of pre-scientific cosmology are literally true.) Find it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150824081950/http://gws.soonlabel.com/misc/Ted%20Chiang%20-%20Tower%20Of%20Babylon.pdf

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