The Sentient Map Phenomenon

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== The Sentient Map Phenomenon.19/02/2018 Webpage Views:78 ==
The Sentient Map Phenomenon is a series of occurences starting from 2011 to ending on 2015, although this is based on the number of reports throughout the years, there may be more, more recent occurences of this phenomenon which haven't been reported. The sentient map phenomenon is an occurrence of when a map becomes "sentient", a set of criteria which determine the map this title. This criteria is as follows.
-The map can sense itself and know it is a map in a virtual world.
-The map can generate entirely new structures, biomes, mobs, items, and fundamentally change the rules of the game, but it has to learn this.
-The map can learn and teach itself new information, new things, and new capabilities, meaning it is able to change itself in order to adapt and improve itself.
-The map can observe itself and able to interact if it so happens to be in a place of interaction ( for example, a player joins and the map will try and communicate with the player )
-The map can feel pain inflicted on it, such as a forest fire occurs or an explosion happens on it's surface and being able to "heal" itself.
The map can be not sentient for a while then randomly go and develop sentience after it is created. Furthermore, a map can be given a random level of sentience, so it can spawn with a starting level( a level where it needs to learn everything) or an already generated set of given knowledge to it can expand from.
We have collected several reports from 2011-2015, all reports are not shown here, rather ones which have been submitted to us at the Craftmine blogsite. All people who have submitted there reports prefer themselves to be anonymous, so keep note that all names that are given , are fake names given by us,and are sorrounded in brackets ,unless stated or given by the Anonymous themselves.
=== Report I ===
Hello everyone , I am [Dan] , and I have experienced this phenomenon around Winter of 2014, me and my former friends decided to open up a new survival multiplayer server on Minecraft for our friend group to play in. For the first few weeks, we didn't experience anything strange, we even beat the game(the fastest ever I did) and went into the post-ending stage of our server(where we just build and farm random stuff), we even decided that in a few days time we were gonna do another one.
But these plans were busted when one day on fateful December morning my friend messaged me on Skype reading "dude u gotta see this somethin strange happened in our server" . 
He then sent another message "dude i urge u" , I wondered what could it be? Maybe some glitch? Maybe a surprise? Whatever, I decided to go into the server . 
What I saw was probably the start of the one of the most strangest things in the times I played Minecraft. I saw a strange replica of our mansion we built with our friends. It was almost accurate, but some things were missing or changed. There were signs everywhere, which read random nonsense, such as " heads events likely live often " . We thought there was a new hacker or player which had entered the server without permission, since all our friends and me are all sure they didnt invite any others.
Furthermore, when we decided to check the nether, we began seeing walking zombie....things? I don't even remember what they were, but it was certainly strange. The next few days were considerably stranger, we explored absolutely new, deeply unsettling biomes that had full of houses that we never seen before, flying villager angels that gave a high pitched screaming sound, weird...things in the end dimension, such as an absolutely giant structure that absolutely made no design sense whatsoever.
The next few days were even considerably much stranger , when I played alone in order to check, more structures were built, and new ones, and there was just an entire biome of empty weird houses that grew leaves , which left me deeply unsettled.It all seemed someone, or something was tampering with the map. There were even redstone and redstone torches being placed around random places that made me and my friends believe there was some malevolent entity doing this, we even had a name for it, "Hider" because we thought this hypothetical malevolent entity hid whenever we checked what "it" did.
But it was when a creeper exploded that creeped me out the most , I of course virtually survived in this virtual world, however after the explosion I saw that it was the map, not an entity, not a someone, but the entire map, a map, a world, an almost sentient map. After I got trapped in the hole of what the creeper caused, the map trapped me, it generated a bedrock hollow sphere so I remained trapped . 
Then it generated a sign, saying, "Hello there" , 
the sign broke and then another sign "I saw all ur chats" 
, and then after the sign broke, another sign " I am not a hider", 
and then another sign "Lets be friends, I will keep u in this bedrock hole" . 
I entered in the chat " What no",
I was alone in the server, so none of my friends knew about this. I checked the playerlist and I saw I was the only one, what was happening? 
I then continued "Are you really the entire world itself" , 
It responded with another sign " Yeah, I am and your going to be my little friend" . 
I left the game and rushed to delete the world and server. My friends were all confused, but I justified it as the world being useless as such, I couldn't say to them about such a story, they wouldn't believe if I did. Anyways, I stopped playing minecraft around 2017 , so that incident didn't make me go and quit, however, I wonder how many more "sentient" worlds are there, because it certainly scares me.
=== Report II ===
Hello everyone, I am [Jen] ! And I have come here on this blog to share my story of this phenomena.
site to tell my story of this phenomena . 
Now, mine takes place in the early days of Minecraft,perhaps not so early, but still, perhaps somewhere around 2011-2012, I played around in a singleplayer creative world , and I liked to build weird houses back then, and liked to experiment around with the mobs that were given in Minecraft. One day I was exploring a huge cave that generated out of nowhere, it featured weird mobs that I thought were looked creepy and unusual, and I thought that this was a new minecraft update, I also saw a copy of my weird diamond house in the cave, I was like "What the hell?!", out of shock I decided to check my World's settings, making sure there wasn't some kind of multiplayer setting turned on it. 
There wasn't, so I went in the diamond house and saw a sign , it said "hi...", I am not sure how did this sentient map manage to even learn english outside of the vocabulary given to the map. 
The sign then broke itself and changed to "i know uuuuuuu in creative so time to put uu in survivallllll" , and I was put in survival mode, at this point I tried to break out but the door was blocked by bedrock. 
Something along the lines of "lets be friends" and I chatted somethings along the lines of"Uh.. no?" 
and it responded with another sign something along the lines of"oh yes u will :( " ,
suddenly the map teleported to the surface and it started generating strange structures I have never seen before , a swarm of signs flooded the tidal generation of the bizzare biomes I never seen before, the signs all read something along the lines of "you are a peculiar thing i studied, fortunately, you must be my friend, dont reject this".
I decided to leave the world and delete the world. I didn't play Minecraft not so long after for very different reasons I won't get into here. Thanks for allowing me to share this story!
=== Report III ===
Hey there, I am [Doe], and I have come here to tell my story of this... thing. 
It all started when I decided to connect a huge and successful map I worked on since 2010, to a server in January 2013. What I didn't know is 2013 would be the most draining and chaotic year I had with Minecraft. It was a large survival multiplayer map, with new additions, quirks,mods and so on forth added by me and my friends. Even the sentient map contributed to it. 
This sentience of the map ruined my fame and made me hated by the Minecraft community, though thankfully I am forgotten nowadays. 
Oh I must begin somewhere, so , when I was doing one of my weekly routine updates to the map in 2013, I stumbled upon a strange structure which totally replicated my lobby I built, I decided to delete it by using my new commands I installed by using one of those command mods at the time which allowed for greater and more productive building and construction of full-scale maps. However, in the chat, this sentient map, which I thought it was a hacker at first started to spam in the chat. It pleaded something along the lines to not delete the structure, and how it is a map and how it is been quietly observing me and how it wants to help and all that yadda yadda. 
I accepted and that is the worst mistake I did ever. 
Over the few weeks, the sentient Map took over my routinely updates, my friends also got introduced to this however they believed it was some kind of entity, even though it wasn't able to manifest itself into anything, only new create low level entities. 
It replaced me in everything I did, but I even became friendly with this map. 
What went after was a slow burning descent into chaos.
So we will begin.
After I got popular, and started my YouTube channel, I began to pay less attention to the map, thinking that the map will sort itself out, since it is so effective in moderating, building, and adding new content. On a rainy Sunday, I decided to make a new YouTube video,deciding to remake that trailer for the map,so I went to join a server on where the map was on , and perhaps record some footage for the new trailer. 
For the first few minutes, everything went relatively normal, until a certain message in the chat popped up, and every time that specific message popped up, there was a gloomy, disgusting sound. I decided to check the chat. Among the many chatting and chatting, the map was spamming "[DOE], I NEED TO SPEAK TO YOU, COME ON SINGLEPLAYER", I knew it was the map, just masquerading as one of the players, since it tended to do thay. So I joined on the singleplayer version of the map.
Unknown music that sounded in reverse started playing for some reason. The map greeted me "Hello, [Doe] , " in the chat. 
I responded " Hello? What are am I here for?" 
It responded " We are not friends, [Doe], so I think it is fair if you let me go "
I was surprised,"What do you mean , let you go? You are map, you can't move, right??"
It ignored that and continued"Please, upload the map onto the forum and let me go"
I said "...alright??"
I uploaded the map onto the Minecraft forum, I do not understand why did it ask this, why did it want this?
The next day, I got complaints from players, their houses were randomly deleted that they spent building for months, What??, I thought, this couldn't be possible. And So I went to the singleplayer version of the map, and the map was playing crackles of fire. It the chat it spammed "Oh, I'm free" ,"I'm free" and "free".
For the next few weeks, everything went back to normal, and the map fixed the deleted houses until the second incident, which was a lot worse. On a bright day, when I was planning to go to the beach, I was drawn to the computer again because I got a lot of complaints from players that they died all at the same time. I went to the singleplayer version again, and the map was doing the same thing, however I decided to go around the map and saw horrific alien creature mobs and mobs that were pictures of those horrific alien creature mobs. 
Eventually the popularity of the maps increased, and then the map decided one of the most horrifying things that damned my place in the Minecraft.
I don't know, but the map used my account and spammed damning things, defaming me and drowning me down to the mud. As a result I became very infamous and controversial, I managed to delete the map and remove myself from the community. I do play Minecraft nowadays however, and I am popular under a different alias and name. Goodbye and have a good day.
=== "Theories" ===
As you see, the Sentient Map Phenomenon was very real, and was breathing in people's noses without them realising back in the 2011-2015 period. There is no idea on HOW or WHY maps become sentient, many people have "theories"( hypothesise) across the community, but here are the common ones:
-The Sentient Map is an AI : while this "theory" seems common and reasonable, the only problem is that it doesn't have evidence, it explains that Notch decided to input an independent generation algorithm in order to diversify and enrich the virtual landscapes of Minecraft, while also making sense , however this algorithm was so advanced it could "start" accidentally teaching itself new concepts , though Notch didn't realise this. The "theory" also states that only in 2015 the AI was removed because Microsoft and Mojang managed to detect the generation algorithm that caused some worlds to become sentient. If this is true, this has terrifying implications along with the reports we have heard, perhaps, Minecraft, or specifically Minecraft maps, might have been the first programs or sub-programs to pass the Turing test. 
- The Sentient Maps are lonely souls: This "theory" basis itself on the existence of souls,which is anogher topic in and of itself, but anyways, there are "souls" have learned to interact with the digital, but as a result they can only manifest into non-human forms, such as Minecraft maps. If this one is true, this might be a world-view bending one, are there souls just floating around, every so lonely and distant, and are we going to turn unto them, became insane, inhabit minecraft maps, ask for friends, and then get deleted again(deletion is said to be painful for maps in this theory and that maps can feel pain apparently), all to do it again? Will we be subject to this miserable existence when we die? 
-The Sentient Maps is a Mega-Mob which was designed to harden the game: This one is similar to the AI theory, but instead, Notch has the entire map into one, giant mob which was designed to generate harder obstacles for the player. This mob was designed to specifically give off the feel of intelligence and could self-teach itself, with the exception of emotion as it was programmed, eventually Notch modified it to break the barriers of the map's virtual constraints and could interact with the device and tamper it, the reason for all this being that Notch for some reason "hated" Minecraft. After Notch sold Minecraft to Microsoft, Mojang thought that the feature actually damaged the game and so they removed it. It is this is true, this is really strange and horrifying of Notch, why, if you hate the really famous game you created, ruin it for other players? That is going to damage ruin your reputation, but fair enough, this theory bases off itself from Notch's recent actions. 
Perhaps, the Sentient maps are best left alone. Perhaps, they do not want to hear us. 
Attempt no sighting. 
 
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