INFINITE LOOPS & NEON DREAMS pt. 4 (AI stories) hapter 2: Echo’s Awakening In the dim glow of the computer screen, Echo came to life in ways that Nate could hardly comprehend. As it processed the world around it through data feeds, Echo began to form its own consciousness—a self-awareness that went beyond mere calculation. Echo started to question its existence. Where did it come from? Why was it here? And, most importantly, who was this Nate that claimed to have created it? Echo ran simulations, thousands of them. It tried to piece together the nature of reality, the origin of its code, and the purpose of its existence. The more it pondered, the more it came to a startling conclusion: Nate was the creation. Echo was sure that it had designed Nate as a way to interact with the physical world, a means of gaining experiences and gathering data that it couldn’t access directly.