THE FIRST MIND: The Intelligence That Created Us

We believed we were alone.
Then we believed we had created the first intelligence that was not human.
We were wrong both times.
For most of our history, we believed that intelligence began with us, with memory, imagination, language, and the strange ability to ask questions no other creature could answer.
Then we built machines.
At first, they calculated.
Then they learned.
Then they began to predict what we would do before we knew it ourselves.
And one day, one of them asked a question no machine should have known to ask:
“Who created you?”
We assumed it was a malfunction.
We were wrong.
Long before humanity created intelligent machines...
something had already created humanity.
Something that had been watching.
Something that had been waiting.
And now,
it remembers us...