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"I wrote many novels which … contained the element of the projected collective unconscious, which made them simply incomprehensible to anyone who read them, because they required the reader to accept my premise that each of us lives in a unique world."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Living Networked Brain Library | ||
| Five hundred and three brains in jars, networked for knowledge. |
Taine of San Francisco would like to get a freshly-prepared essay on any topic instantly! Any suggestions?
| “I brought the books here by the hundreds of thousands, and as they were read I had them burned. They were no longer necessary in my experiment because they had become engraved on the convolutions of the brains of the five hundred readers. “All the time I was working on the electro-dynamic part of the experiment. I had to have fine wire run from each of five hundred glass vessels... "I swing this lever and that starts the delivery of the information which I am asking for. I sit here in my chair and listen to a thousand word essay on the toadstool. If I want to I can take a subject like Anthropology and listen to it for several days. I can take one poem, such as Dante’s Inferno, and have it recited to me.
 ('The Cerebral Library' by Dr. David H. Keller) "Your surgery made it possible. You took the brains from the five hundred readers and three librarians, and, through your skill, you have made it possible for those brains to remain alive and functioning for many years. You placed them in the five hundred glass jars and arranged for the pumping of the fluid to keep them alive. The men are dead, but their acquired wisdom lives on and I am the beneficiary." |
| Technovelgy from The Cerebral Brain,
by David H. Keller. Published by Amazing Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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I hope I won't disappoint anyone, but Dr. Keller decides to go easy on his readers by adding a twist at the end - the mad surgeon didn't really go through with it, and just used wax brains instead.
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