We Must Boost the Signal, Page 14

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Science has its pecking orders, like everything else.

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PAGE 14 (Four panels)

Panel One: view of Hope’s face as she lies inside the MRI machine again.

Caption: After several months during which I thought my eyeballs might start to bleed we are finally making progress.

Panel Two: An instrument panel. On the left-hand side of the panel is a small video screen showing a scan of Hope’s brain. On the right there is a monitor on which words are being printed IN THE BLUE VALLEY THERE ARE ANIMALS YOU CAN EAT. IN THE GREEN VALLEY THERE ARE ANIMALS THAT CAN EAT YOU.

Caption: Our software has finally learned enough to start turning neural patterns into concepts and syntax.

Panel Three: Hope, now sitting in an ordinary office chair. Her head is braced so that it cannot move, and some sort of antenna-like device is pointed at her head.

Caption: In time, our hardware also improves.

Panel Four: Hope and some older male scientists all standing in a circle, raising glasses of champagne in a toast.

Caption: Dreams of telepathy have come true, at least for one woman scientist.

Caption: Our team heads are in Nobel prize territory here. Though I’m not. Too junior. Also too female.

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We Must Boost the Signal, Page 14 written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)