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The Face in the Mirror: a transhuman identity crisis
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Series: Reflections, Book 1
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ISBN10: 1482635828
ISBN13: 9781482635829
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Mar 13 2013
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.17
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781482635829
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Mar 13 2013
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.17
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What Makes You... You?
After an accident left him crushed from the shoulders down, his brain on life support, he was the perfect subject for the experiment he was involved in, putting a human brain in a fully prosthetic body. The problem? All three previous patients had gone insane. Todd was the cybernetic engineer trying to fix things. Fortunately, for Todd, his colleagues came up with something they hoped would save both his life and his sanity. Transplanting his brain into a brain-dead body. However, in a time when organ and even limb transplants came from lab grown cloned tissues, the list of potential donors is incredibly small. A suitable body could be grown in the lab, but that would take years. The body they had was a neo-person. A member of an animalistic slave race created to do... unpleasant work. An anthropomorphic cat person. A body full of a soldier's reflexes and enhanced senses. Oh, this new body also happened to be female. Todd looks down at this body and can't recognize anything.
It sounds like a simple question.
You look down at your body and think, That's me.
You look in a mirror, That's me too.
After an accident left him crushed from the shoulders down, his brain on life support, he was the perfect subject for the experiment he was involved in, putting a human brain in a fully prosthetic body. The problem? All three previous patients had gone insane. Todd was the cybernetic engineer trying to fix things. Fortunately, for Todd, his colleagues came up with something they hoped would save both his life and his sanity. Transplanting his brain into a brain-dead body. However, in a time when organ and even limb transplants came from lab grown cloned tissues, the list of potential donors is incredibly small. A suitable body could be grown in the lab, but that would take years. The body they had was a neo-person. A member of an animalistic slave race created to do... unpleasant work. An anthropomorphic cat person. A body full of a soldier's reflexes and enhanced senses. Oh, this new body also happened to be female. Todd looks down at this body and can't recognize anything.
Todd's first look in a mirror makes him faint.Cognito Ergo Sum?
I think, therefore I am.
Will that be enough for Todd? To know that the one doing the thinking is him, even when nothing else is what it used to be.
Even when the new body's reflexes accidentally hurt someone?
Even when the new body's hormones make him question his gender identity?
Even when she starts questioning her sexual orientation?
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