Intelligent Chalklings

[Archer he/him]

What if you could make a chalkling that could think? 

Life is made out of cells. Each of the cells in our body are relatively basic, having only a few simple functions. When combined with trillions of other cells, they make living organisms which are able to act and think independently. It would be easy enough to draw a 'cell' chalkling, and then give it the commands it needs to contribute to the system. If you practiced enough, and used small enough chalk, you might be able to get the shape down to (random estimate) the size of a dime. Then if you repeated this process trillions of times, keeping them close together and connected all the cells to each other, you could make a brain. An insanely massive brain, but a brain all the same. If you could accomplish this, would it make a sentient chalkling? 

EDIT: Google puts the size of a dime at 18mm. Therefore, the area of one cell would be 2.54 x 10^-4 km². Multiplied by 37 trillion cells in the average human body, the surface area the chalkling would cover is 9398 km². That's about the size of Jamacia. Which is smaller than I thought it would be. But that's for the whole body. There's only about 100 billion cells is the human brain. So just to make the brain, you'd need an area of 25.4 km². I'm not sure if you'd need other organs like the heart as well to make it work, or if it could survive on its own. 

Edited March 27, 2018 by Archer

[Tineye Navigator he/him]

*chalkling actually comes to life, and becomes intelligent*

*chalkling finds @Archer, and kills him*

Much like the monster created by Frankenstein is the reason for Frankensteins death in the end, The Chalkling, whose concept was created by Archer, now gets brutally killed by the chalkling. 

 

[Archer he/him]

@Tineye Navigator luckily Archer created the chalking, designing it with flaws and mental blocks for just this scenario! Archer's chalking destroys what it thinks is Archer, but is really just a decoy.

Meanwhile, the real Archer watches from a safe distance, hiding in his space station and wondering why someone's out to kill him. 

Edited March 29, 2018 by Archer

[IlstrawberrySeed]

As a coder, I was thinking how unfortunate that they were stuck with (incredibly efficient) chalking powered spring work technology, when a chalking could be programmed for hours for intelligent combat, even listening to verbal commands, and using devices to make sounds.

[Weaver of Shadows he/him]

I bet you could build a machine to draw extremely thin lines and make “cell” chalklings smaller than a dime.

[Stormlit Shard he/him]

you might not have to draw the brain exactly, you would just need a drawing that is just pretty detailed. The chalkling wouldn't be as smart that way but it could still be at least somewhat sentient.