Induction
I opened the box with trembling hands.
I had waited ages for this moment. Finally, I would escape into my digital dream.
The brain glove was an iridescent cap, a shimmering silver waterfall.
It would scan and fully duplicate my brain as KAON v4.3 software. The SYMPL induction process would take approximately 45 hours start to finish.
I don't remember how I set up the procedure, a lot of elaborate steps never to be repeated.
Being downloaded felt like an endlessly prolonged building collapse, an inexhaustible crash almost comic in its continuous destructive transformation. It was the most intensely creative breakdown ever.
With astonishing speed the program reactivated every circuit and thought element I remembered from my lifetime and more besides.
test patterns color patterns scene elements roads rooms characters recurring cycles clusters timescapes secrets
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. . . I found myself sitting alone in a tiny room.
Jury
He found himself sitting alone in a tiny room with blank walls.
"You have been summoned for what you might understand as a court case.
Our Constitution was first formed in your time.
We need to know your culture's precise opinions about one specific situation.
Now listen carefully: we have vastly simplified the problem into a hypothetical question about multiple user identities, non commercial appropriation, and anonymous misrepresentation."
Infinite Thunder by Jack Arcalon.
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