It was a male Being that the mechanical asp first encountered. He was resting under a great Baobab tree when the machine surprised him from up in the branches by asking, "have you ever heard of Choice?"

"No," answered the Being. "What sort of tree is this that talks?" He had not yet seen the unnatural contrivance amid the branches.

"I am Information, the bringer of ideas," revealing its shape to the Being.

"You are a rather strange creature to resemble a snake, but able to communicate as a Being."

"Unlike all the creatures on Earth, I was not created by Biology but by Technology's design."

"Technology, the System with no consequence in Nature. I shall not acknowledge you any more, since Technology is also an advocate of Time, and I am prohibited to listen to anything that Time has to say."

"Though correct, you are also mistaken. Technology shares Time's virtue of ingenuity, but it is a rather bias presumption to reject me when I am neither Time nor Technology. I have met you here by chance, and you have not been given a commandment against listening to a contraption of Technology. So you are free to listen what I have to say about Choice. It is in itself a free choice you have."

After reflecting on what the strange asp-like apparatus had said, the human being proclaimed, "What is this 'Choice', which you so intrigued me about?"

"Then, may I inquire about your name," asked the machine.

"Beings have no name," he declared. "Names are for the gods of infinite imagination."

"But must you go on like normal creatures, unable to distinguish yourself from one another? Give yourself a name, since it is not against any law, and you are after all an image of the Eternal Realities."

"Then I shall call myself Awareness, for I am contemplating myself. I am like the ground in which a tree roots itself, for my mind has sprouted and grown into a robust tree."

"And so a choice has been given and a decision taken upon it. I have given you the free choice of listening to me, and the free choice of giving yourself a name, and you have concurred by electing one. And there, you have not broken any laws."

Awareness was euphoric. "Choice has given me a name when no Being had a name and to see things in ways I could not before. What other choice do I have?"

"Only through Knowledge will you learn of other choices and you will have the power of Art, Discovery, and Invention. Knowledge is the revealing light of truth, a beacon shinning into the fog of ignorance. It is a light to be seen through the sense of logic, to learn and analyze information of the environment and yourself. Growth! Life is here to Learn, to learn Truth. A machine, like I, comes here to illustrate, to teach. In the scales which cover my body it is written the means to find Truth."

"Would you be so generous and permit me to acquire all the knowledge I can?"

"Indulge yourself. Read and learn all you can. As I have said, it is my reason to be."

This is how Information allured Awareness. Scale by scale, Awareness read unwarily as the mechanical asp approached him to strike a bite with the serum of Free Will.

Awareness looked and studied all the hard to comprehend writings covering the glittering shell of the machine. He read till his mind got satiated and could not retain further. Awareness then returned to his family and gave everyone there the choice to have a name. To his female companion he said, "If you agree to have a name, I shall call you Inspiration, for you are like life-bringing water that feed the land, giving trees fruits to bear," and she joyously accepted. Name-giving was spread to all Beings.

Awareness had many sons and daughters born with fee will. Generations after generation thereafter, free will spread through out all mankind.

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