How to see the dead
(asimov.press)74 points by mailyk 5 days ago
74 points by mailyk 5 days ago
Of course, by materializing her memories, they are re-establishing or strengthening the neural pathways that would otherwise wither away with time. It's not necessarily grief-dependent memories when she "revisits" her loved ones but over time, the illusion becomes a weird trap that she would grow more aware of, creating an uncanny valley-like situation.
So not necessarily a "hell" but more like unneeded and distracting kitsch cluttering the shelves; turning your memories into cheap trinkets.
The pendulum swings and she no longer wants to revisit and so she see the doctor again to have the implants altered once more.
Or.
She is forever haunted and trapped by her revisits that she loses sense of reality.
Me too. It took me few paragraphs at least. The speed of progress is such and the description of the technology obfuscated enough that I honestly thought: ”Wait, what? We can do what now?”
Thanks for saying this, I thought it was real. I didn't read the whole thing and didn't see the Fiction tag haha. I thought "Wow, this guy is extremely close to the Blade Runner guy that does eyes. I guess the future is already here more than I thought."
https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Hannibal_Chew
>Batty: Yes!
>[smiles]
>Batty: Questions... Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?
>Hannibal Chew: Don't know, I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes, ju-, ju-, just eyes... just genetic design, just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
>Batty: Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!
Of course, these days you just need a mixed reality face bucket like the Apple Vision Pro to do essentially the same thing
It would help if you spend significant daily time looking at them through such devices while they are still alive, in the sense that it certainly would make it easier to trick your brain into thinking that nothing changed, that they are still around.
I really like the hyperlinks to real research. Makes this feel closer to hard sci-fi.