Ace Dreamer Wrote:If you are a moral and ethical researcher working on this sort of project, who have you got to use as an experimental subject? Yourself. The odds are strongly against you getting it right first time. And, by the time you get something that is safe, are you going to be sure that the research was worth it in the first place?Sounds reasonable... maybe you should work a bit more on the "phase 3" part of the document.
You should consider yourself lucky you can walk away, with your physical health, and with some hope you might fully recover, mentally, in a few years. It's also possible the researcher found out things, both about themselves, and the ways that this tech might be abused, that made them really unhappy. He probably had to 'dispose of' quite a few insane versions of his own mind in the process of 'completing' the research, and still the basic problems haven't been solved.
Quote:Brains has every reason to be suspicious as to why he might find out about this, but, he has a habit of talking to some very strange people at science fiction conventions.And if I understood the story right, Brain still did not got the notes of the scientists... but he got a confirmation that something like this exists. Might be an useful but still very stressing tech if Brain can replicate the research.
Quote:(edit) Just a question, you want this as a background for the "workforce multiplier tech" you mentioned in the thread were we talked about Brain building the "battleship" ?
I'd consider it to be part of that background, the other part being Brains study of the plans for the Julian Friez Machine. And something that Arthur might look into, when he talks to 'Student', the collector of the Professor's technology, after he, Arthur, is rescued from captivity by Boskone. Part of the fictional basis of this is the "Machine Smith" Marvel character (who was 'Mr Fear' before he died and was uploaded by his robots - and was so unhappy about his flawed 'immortality' he tried to commit suicide via super hero), Will McCarthy's "Lost in Transmission", and the golems of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People[/quote]
"Suicide via super hero" *LOL*