• Embed Doc
  • Copy Link
  • Readcast
  • Collections
  • CommentGo Back
Download
 
After Life
Simon Funk
 
February, 2006simonfunk@gmail.com
 
Chapter 1Alex in Wonderland
I’m writing this now as I’m not sure what I’ll remembertomorrow. Hell, I’m not even sure I’m writing this now.Yesterday when I woke up...Well, let me back up a little. I don’t know who willever read this, so I should explain. I—we, the people I workwith, study the brain. Right now we are working on some-thing pretty neat, but also scary. We want to map a brain,functionally, down to the individual neuron. The trouble is,until now there’s been no way to do this without killing thebrain’s owner.But we’ve been able to do it—with a rat, and a cat. Wedon’t really know if it worked with the cat, but we are cur-rently running a simulation of the rat’s brain and it appearsto be exhibiting strikingly rat-like behavior. I.e. fuckingamazing. Top secret. Even writing this down on somethingoutside of company premises I’m sure violates a dozen clausesin my contract, but...let me move forward.This is basically my project. I’m the one who’s had thefaith in it from the start, the drive to push it forward, andthe ingenuity to make it work. But I feel I’ve been fightingbureaucracies the whole way, from trying to get money frompeople who could never understand what it’s for to tryingto get permission from people who could never understand3
of 00

Leave a Comment

You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...
You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...