It’s not just that we’ve created a pyschoactive microbe. This is one whose growth within the brain can be controlled with millimeter precision – and once in place, the ensemble can be guided in its actions with the same precision.’ Vinh’s response was so blank that it penetrated even Reynolt’s attention. ‘Don’t you see? We can improve the attention-focusing aspects of consciousness: we can take humans and turn them into analytical engines.’ She spelled it out in wretched detail. On the Emergent worlds, the Focusing process was spread over the last years of a specialist’s schooling,
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