Unique, like everyone!

So, I woke up and found myself connected to their machines. This was unbelievable. They were now recording my nervous system from inside and outside simultaneously. I later asked them whether they had tried the same on lab animals. They couldn’t do it in an as elaborate way with animals as they did with me, since animals are hard to control when concious. A rat won’t be able to survive such operation and a chimp would freak out and tear itself apart if they saw themselves in such conditions. Humans, on the other hand can control themselves even in life threatening situations. It was important that the subject in this experiment stay calm and its mental condition remained normal and stable. Apparently, I was doing a good job of it.

This was a state of the art in In-Vivo brain studies. I was amazed the next day when they tried to verify their recordings by sending signals to my body from their computer systems for specific movements. They made me twitch my fingers and lift my leg and my eyes watched in disbelief. There it was, my body being controlled by two commanders. One was me and the other was their system. For me, every passing second was amazing. For them every passing second was achievment. I was breaking records of surviving such operations every moment that I lived. I was making history.

They told me, I would soon lose my body. They would first replace my body parts with mechanical parts connected to my brain via their system, so my brain will gradually adapt to them. My left arm was the first to go. I don’t know how much the operation took but I woke up as a bionic man. It seemed like an alien organ,  but I gradually accepted it. After the transplant they kept me blindfolded and asked me which one of my arms had been replaced. I couldn’t tell except for some pain in my left shoulder. Then they told me to raise my hands and I did. I still couldn’t tell. They were translating my neural impluses to electronic signals to the bionic arm and send feedback to my brain same as a biological arm would. This was beginning of a series of operations. I lost all my limbs and got bionic ones. Next were operations on my internal organs. I knew everything was going well coz they kept me my biological genitals.

But this was just another step. It ensured that their system had learnt enough about my neurological and physical system that they could trick my brain into accepting mechanical limbs and be able to control them just as well as biological ones. What was more important that their systems continued to learn.

By this time, they had given me a set of cameras instead of human eyes and set up an oxygen, glucose and other chemicals’ direct supply to my brain. got rid of my kidneys, liver, heart and my face was left like a mask, that would soon be removed. I had lost my jaws and I couldn’t laugh out loud but thats where the next and most important phase of the process started. Whenever my brain sent signals to my facial muscles (that would make me laugh), the system would intercept them and (since my facial muscles were disconnected by now,) send back the same feedback to my brain, as the one sent by facial neurons back to it.

So I laughed but there was no physical movement or sound. This, as you may have already realized, was the real thing. The stuff it was all about. Ultimately everything had to go virtual, whereby my brain would be directly connected to their system via hundreds of thousands of electrodes and would live in total virtual reality. It would be presented the same world picture as I would see and hear and feel with my normal biological body. And it would work the same way except that there would be no physically visible movements and sounds but the brain would feel and see and hear what the system would present to it. If the picture fitt my previous knowledge, I would have no problem living with it, otherwise I would be lost.

I had no record of time by now, since I had lost my mobility during the initial days and was now totally dependent upon what I was told by the doctors.

There were times, when I couldn’t believe it. What if they had put me in some deep trance and I had lost my conciousness and this was all just suggestions by some hypnotist, who was laughing at me all along. But then I knew I was for real and I had volunteered for this. I had seen those wires going in and out of my body and I had enjoyed watching their system jiggle my fingers.

The story gets weird but I was getting simpler. I kinda liked it!