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Wake me up when I can grow a mouse from my own body and see from its eyes. http://latenightsketches.com/detach-2.html http://latenightsketches.com/detach-2.htm

by numtel 4y ago

Wake me up when I can grow a mouse from my own body and see from its eyes. http://latenightsketches.com/detach-2.html http://latenightsketches.com/detach-2.html

EForEndeavour 4y ago
That short story contains the highest density of mind-blowingness per unit text I've seen in a long time.
- numtel 4y ago
  Thank you so much!
  - psychphysic 4y ago
    How has Netflix not greenlit this already? It could revive black mirror.
  - upwardbound 4y ago
    Such a cool story :) If you'd like this breadcrumb as something that could help make the world of the story feel like it could be our world, here's an interesting thing which is that Alan Turing thought that telepathy could be possible, and tried to account for this when designing the Turing Test. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19728844/extrasensory-perception-turing-computing-machinery-and-intelligence https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19728844/extrasensory-pe... If telepathy were to be possible as described in your story, you could explain it as mind-body dualism being real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism and that the new animal born from the person temporarily shares a neural link with the person's brain, causing the sharing of one spirit, and that when the neural link is broken as the animal separates, the spirit is still anchored to both parts of the formerly-unified nervous system. The explanation for why this wouldn't happen during standard childbirth is that mother and child don't share a neural link, only a blood link. Here's another breadcrumb for this idea https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125093823.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125093823.h...
    - numtel 4y ago
      Your telepathy explanation is exactly where I was coming from. This is why I believe we'll be able to live forever without uploading our minds into computers.
- ddingus 4y ago
  Seconded! Great expression! I want more.
korijn 4y ago
Stumbling upon this felt like a bit of the old internet's magic. Thanks.
krrrh 4y ago
I love how the narrator pluralizes shaman as shamen. Subtle way to cast the unreliable narrator, but I’ll probably start using this construction now.
zeristor 4y ago
So basically drones.
sabellito 4y ago
Excuse me, where is the rest of the book?
gpderetta 4y ago
Very nice, sort of reminds me of the Azabo from the Book of the New Sun. There is also a detach-3, but couldn't find any more story, nor an index to these stories in the website. Edit: oh you are the author, very good writing.
- numtel 4y ago
  Very good investigation. Detach 4 wasn't good enough to upload but 3 did kind of expand into 5, 5.2, and 5.3. As much as I want to turn Detach 5 into a nine chapter book, it's not easy. The original notes that inspired all this are at detach.html without suffix. None of these are linked on the website as they are a work in progress. (Why have a personal website without some hidden gems?) The dream I think would be an anthology of short stories related to different paths from this kind of multiplicative ability.

by numtel 4y ago

Wake me up when I can grow a mouse from my own body and see from its eyes. http://latenightsketches.com/detach-2.html http://latenightsketches.com/detach-2.html

EForEndeavour 4y ago

That short story contains the highest density of mind-blowingness per unit text I've seen in a long time.

numtel 4y ago
Thank you so much!
- psychphysic 4y ago
  How has Netflix not greenlit this already? It could revive black mirror.
- upwardbound 4y ago
  Such a cool story :) If you'd like this breadcrumb as something that could help make the world of the story feel like it could be our world, here's an interesting thing which is that Alan Turing thought that telepathy could be possible, and tried to account for this when designing the Turing Test. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19728844/extrasensory-perception-turing-computing-machinery-and-intelligence https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19728844/extrasensory-pe... If telepathy were to be possible as described in your story, you could explain it as mind-body dualism being real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism and that the new animal born from the person temporarily shares a neural link with the person's brain, causing the sharing of one spirit, and that when the neural link is broken as the animal separates, the spirit is still anchored to both parts of the formerly-unified nervous system. The explanation for why this wouldn't happen during standard childbirth is that mother and child don't share a neural link, only a blood link. Here's another breadcrumb for this idea https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125093823.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125093823.h...
  - numtel 4y ago
    Your telepathy explanation is exactly where I was coming from. This is why I believe we'll be able to live forever without uploading our minds into computers.
ddingus 4y ago
Seconded! Great expression! I want more.

korijn 4y ago

Stumbling upon this felt like a bit of the old internet's magic. Thanks.

krrrh 4y ago

I love how the narrator pluralizes shaman as shamen. Subtle way to cast the unreliable narrator, but I’ll probably start using this construction now.

zeristor 4y ago

So basically drones.

sabellito 4y ago

Excuse me, where is the rest of the book?

gpderetta 4y ago

Very nice, sort of reminds me of the Azabo from the Book of the New Sun. There is also a detach-3, but couldn't find any more story, nor an index to these stories in the website. Edit: oh you are the author, very good writing.

numtel 4y ago
Very good investigation. Detach 4 wasn't good enough to upload but 3 did kind of expand into 5, 5.2, and 5.3. As much as I want to turn Detach 5 into a nine chapter book, it's not easy. The original notes that inspired all this are at detach.html without suffix. None of these are linked on the website as they are a work in progress. (Why have a personal website without some hidden gems?) The dream I think would be an anthology of short stories related to different paths from this kind of multiplicative ability.