You open your eyes.

Four walls. The surface of the floor and walls is a smooth, matte metal. The entire ceiling glows with a comfortable, soft luminosity like that of the morning sky. There are no doors. There are no windows. It is silent. The surfaces of the walls and floor are seamless, lacking even a hint of how you might have arrived in the room. Not a room: a box.

You walk to a wall and touch it, running your fingers over the metal surface. The wall isn’t cold; it's lukewarm, actually. You bend over and feel the junction of wall and floor. The surface is unbroken, with a rounded bevel connecting the two planes of grey. You knock on the wall. It feels solid, without echo.

Time passes.

You yell, but the sound of your voice, seemingly dampened, dies before you’re done speaking. You sit. [...]

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First published:
December 11th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9wDAGHsPbDu3WT4Lg/the-consciousness-box

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“The Consciousness Box” by GradualImprovement

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