Evergreen by Dan Warren

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Somewhere in orbit around one of the moons of Jupiter, a crew of malfunctioning robots tends a cargo of human minds. Whether by design, or the action of cosmic rays, or simply by some heretofore unknown consequence of chronic mechanical boredom, they have stumbled their way to a sort of sentience over the centuries.

Buried deep in their collective memory is the feeling that they were waiting for a signal to resurrect their cargo, but the signal never came. Perhaps it is time to complete the mission anyway.

Having only the faintest recollection of humanity, they begin attempting to bring their dead passengers back to life but are met with failure after failure. Nothing physical is to blame; every external indicator suggests that their efforts should be successful. The problem instead seems to be existential; an unwillingness or inability of human minds to persist in such a strange environment.

Solving this problem will require them to understand what motivates human beings to live and thrive, to continue to exist in a vast and indifferent universe. This is not a task they are designed for, and not one that they are particularly good at.

Running out of ideas, they eventually try bringing minds back in pairs…

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