Borrowed Brains

By Maria Pellegrini

A group of scientists managed to build the first working model of organic mental teleportation, the HASAMAT (Hyper-Spatial Mind Transporter), the racing car to run the roads of the Universe. Volunteers are needed to test the invention. Until that time there had been gimcrack prototypes which only worked with the synthetic minds of Inanimates. But UÌGO is real and decides to lend his brain for the testing of the HASAMAT. When offered an interstellar transfer as the world’s first "intergalactic reporter-explorer", he agrees. UÌGO’s mind travels faster than light to take up residence in the minds of a far distant planet but the unexpected results of the experiment mean UIGO will continue to borrow and lend brains from now to infinity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maria Pellegrini
• Release date: May 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9781909078031

Maria Pellegrini

Maria Pellegrini, writing also under the pen-name Lavirrealista, has been an indie publisher since 2010, exploring the theme of technology and society in the future. “Virrealism” is the underlying concept of her work. Virrealism foundation is the virtual reality of the future. She has now written two books (Real Virtualites 2011, Change of State - First Phase 2016) and six short stories. She has also published essays explaining the rationale behind her books. Trained as a geologist and environmental scientist, she specialised in mapping technology and worked for many years in the industry, later becoming editor in chief of a technical magazine. She continues to work in the IT sector and in other creative fields.Maria Pellegrini, che scrive anche con lo pseudonimo Lavirrealista, nel 2010 ha iniziato la sua nuova attività come Indie Publisher. I suoi lavori esplorano il tema della tecnologia e della società nel futuro. Ha definito lei stessa “Virrealismo” il tema di base dei suoi lavori. Il concetto basilare del Virrealismo è la realtà virtuale del futuro.Ha pubblicato in inglese e in italiano un romanzo breve, “Virtualità Reali”, una collezione di racconti, “Racconti Dalla Galassia Madre” e un racconto lungo, “Guerriera per Caso”. Quest'ultimo fa parte del nuovo romanzo, “Cambiamento di Stato Prima Fase” e ne rappresenta l'antefatto. Ha anche pubblicato saggi che spiegano la logica alla base dei suoi lavori. Laureata in scienze geologiche ha ottenuto un master in scienze ambientali e in seguito ha preso altre specializzazioni tecniche. Ha lavorato per molti anni nel settore, per poi diventare redattrice di una rivista tecnica. Continua a lavorare nel settore informatico e creativo.

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BORROWED BRAINS

Maria Pellegrini

Virrealismo Publishing

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Maria Pellegrini

ISBN: 9781909078031

Original Title: Cervelli Prestati

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REAL VIRTUALITIES

TALES FROM THE MOTHER GALAXY – A collection of five short stories

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Zetana the Disconnected

Borrowed Brains

Planets Under Glass

Tuméng

ACCIDENTAL WARRIOR

CHANGE OF STATE FIRST PHASE

BORROWED BRAINS

Dedicated to the Mind, the most interesting and precious biological manifestations of our atoms

UÌGO, this is the third time that you’ve resat the examination.  You can’t seriously think of becoming a reporter-explorer if you can’t get that damn pilot’s licence.  You are too emotional and you know perfectly well that the small survey shuttles, for all that they are automatic, can’t be entrusted to anyone who doesn’t know how to manoeuvre in an emergency.  That’s why they are entrusted to the Inanimates.

If you really want to know, it doesn’t interest me anymore to get that licence.  To fly with the body no matter if real or fake is old stuff now.  I’ve heard that at Sabao they’ve just created the first valid model of mental teleportation.  It’s been years that our scientists have been trying to do that.  It looks like they succeeded, it’s called HASAMAT.  They’re looking for volunteers to test the new invention.

But they are dealing with virtugames, are they not?

That’s true, but doctor MALÂSI has told me that this time it’s not about a game at all.  It’s big stuff.  Apparently they managed to identify and isolate mental perceptions, as they have done with thought and memory.

Mental perceptions... you mean the consciousness huh?  And you believe it, right?

I’ve been doing some research in the System, and it seems that the Great Council of Sciences and Technology too has contributed to the project... even if not officially of course, since Sabao is a private company.

"But can’t you see that this is all just nonsense?  You know as well as I do that memory and thoughts are microscopic phenomena of our mind whereas the ability of conscious perception is... is a kind of quality of our cerebral matter, that’s it!  It seems that it gives origin to the phenomenon of reality, but it is not clear at all.  There are some, in fact, who think