Self help to writing.

do not look for purpose in art

I recently played an old game The Talos Principle (no spoilers) where you play as a robot with the task of completing puzzles with the goal of gain eternal life. but as I played I learned things that I thought I knew already such as the question is an artificial intelligence count as being human. 

I believed that before that in the most fundamental way that it is human, for are we a machine but whereas the machine has electricity coursing through its circuits we have blood running in our veins. 

but the game didn't just question physical but also the mind. the game always asked me what tells us apart from an animal to that of a human, are we different because we are aware or are we different because we created concepts that no other animal in the world has. 

an animal will eat for survival but some of us choose carefully at what we eat, are we good or bad for eating what we eat? same with killing, animals will kill for food or defend himself/others because of instinct but humanity had created the concept of good and evil to see if it a necessary to justify to kill or if not then we are bad. but a machine doesn't require much as it is not bound by instinct but its program, but here's where artificial intelligence comes into play, to create an A.I, we must look at the groundwork of the human mind to create it must create a something so artificial that it was not born through years of evolution but rather be created as blank slate it must be hollow but even in the absence of one there is the presence of other. 

think of it like this when someone gets amnesia and they wake with no memory, when you wipe everything away there is still someone a person to talk to, that is what I think an A.I should be based on. 

but then comes purpose in The Talos Principle there are three characters, the player, Elohim(god in Hebrew) and MLA. Elohim is introduced at the very start and is the one who gives you the purpose of completing puzzles and promise to give you eternal life, under the condition that you never climb the tower (you guys starting to see what I'm seeing) and MLA is introduced later at he is the A.I that manages the archives of all of human history. but there is a slight difference between the two, where Elohim was made to look after you, MLA was never made with a direct purpose. which leads to a point where the player is conflicted to side with one or the other, to have a purpose with Elohim or to have none and climb the tower for the sake of curiosity. You see Elohim sees the world as if everything needs purpose but MLA can't see the purpose in the world so he gives up. but in the archives of MLA library, there is a philosopher that is in between the two sides. he doesn't see the purpose in life but that doesn't mean that Life isn't worth experiencing. 

During my brake with writing to learn and study the craft and began to see what was the point of writing only to play The Talos Principle and learn from it (and watch Ex Machina) that there doesn't need to be a point on writing my story, I don't have to do it for anyone not even for me because once it out there it can be enjoyed and anyone can read and that wonderful to know that there is art out there that doesn't need to be questioned but rather enjoyed and maybe you can question it because that what human seem to be great at.