The Brain

By D. E. Harrison

The central human brain has 27 feeders and only 9 receptors and they do not touch. It is an outstanding question as how the correct protein is manufactured, moved to, and then taken by one of the receptors. If not correctly, the color red would taste sweet.
Kathy is a lab. tech studying this question at an Institute. She ‘spaces’ out and requires medical treatment. In a comma she is brain scanned. The doctor doing the brain scan tries to kidnap her for his studies. Escaping the hospital, she smokes up a fast-food shop. The doctor goes to jail and the Institute takes the brain scanning equipment.
Kathy is tested more and is becoming more sensitive with each test. They are testing the waves and never touch her physically. An electrical store hits the Institute when Kathy is in the brain machine. She is barely found alive.
After the storm she begins to ‘space out’ even more and writes on whatever is available. She never remembers anything of these events.
Her male friend Jim tries to help with what she has been writing on several walls.
Who is Auntie Kathy and why are Kathy and Jim hiding?
And what of the writing on the hotel wall Kathy did with little on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. E. Harrison
• Release date: Dec 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463392188

D. E. Harrison

I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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The Brain

By D. E. Harrison

Copyright 2007 by D. E. Harrison

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Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

Chapter 1 The Institute

Chapter 2 Kathy’s Research Problem

Chapter 3 Kathy is in Hospital

Chapter 4 Kathy Leaves the Hospital

Chapter 5 the Police Report

Chapter 6 The Brain Machine goes to the Institute

Chapter 7 The Storm and Trapped

Chapter 8 No Help for Many Days

Chapter 9 What might the Shirt Mean?

Chapter 10 Aunt Kathy Comes to Town.

Chapter 11 Aunt Kathy Exposed

Chapter 12 Yes, No, Maybe

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PROLOGUE

The little gray cells are checking out the entire system, even itself. Billions of synapses are considering which protein to build. At un-measurable speed, decisions are made, command sent, and several molecules are being manufactured. It is built, notification issued, and new orders are taken.

The protein travels down a channel in which verifies its construction and then out of the plant.

In a fraction of a second, the protein molecule passes through a membrane separating the factory from the receiving area. The membrane signals a head of what is passing through it. One of the receptors activates itself and the protein passes several before taken into the receptor. The receptor disassembles the protein, fires off the necessary synapse to complete the message it just received.

So, it goes, sometimes proteins are made continually and sometimes they are created to full fill a ‘rational’ decision someone makes.

Chapter 1 The Institute

Kathy Wright is watching an ameba splitting under the all-seeing eye of the microscope. The sample has only 10 specimens each in a different phase of splitting. The high-speed camera is on to record everything. If the little creatures could see through the scope, they would go get a camera too.

So is the life of a lab tech, interesting but boring sometimes.

In a more sterile part of the lab, she uses her youthful powder blue eyes and perfect hand coordination to peel a creature with only 74 cells into 74 separate specimens. The next creature to receive her trusty hand will be separated into only 6 pieces, the next into two. The researcher is trying understanding how the 74-celled creatures can regenerate from only six and which six.

The pay is good, hours are fine, but the social life does not exist. Even lunch is with creatures that spend their entire lifetime in a drop of pond water.

After lunch, the senior researcher and Director Dr. Jones arrives at work. This is his normal time to come in. He has trouble remembering where he wants to go or if he has already had lunch. But mention his research or lead him to an enlarged picture of some creature and he amazes everyone on his knowledge, insight, and what he can see that others have missed, besides that he just a nice old fellow. He treats everyone the same. This annoys the younger PhD’s. They feel they need to be shown that they are something special. Kathy stays away from them as much as possible; through she is expected to assist anyone needing her help. Pompous might be her word but she is never asked and a good thing she is not.

Dr Jones is the moneyman for the Institute. No one can squeeze money out of stone like he can He calls everyone by their first name on every committee is sits on, whether it is local, or national. He even asks how a mother or wife is by name and then sends his best wishes. You bet they do, or they get a scolding some place down the line.

Around the lab, their nametags were just changed to be much smaller. So small there is no room for titles or anything else but their names. His tag read only Harvey Jones. His secretary of many years has one more made up that says Director Jones. It is on his official greeting jacket. He never reads it anyway.

Any new hire, no matter the position has several orientations. But none is more important than the one given by the Director’s secretary.

She tells them, "Everyone has several name tags like yours. Please read the one with the most names on it to start with. Some will tell you very quickly, what they want to be called. Some will take years before you can use their first name.

"Except when Director Jones is in the room then you may hear a lot of different names coming out of him. Go with the flow and try not to talk directly to anyone. Third person is best, you may step on a few toes but don’t worry. They know that if they jump too hard on you the Director will eat them alive. It just takes some getting use to.

The first time you meet the Director his name is Mr. Jones. He will tell you what he wants after that. Please, it does not matter where you are or whom you are with, use that name. He will remind you if you do not. The lab techs may be referred to as Miss or Mr. until they tell you different.

She pauses as she takes the new hire around a corner, You will do fine, but some of the people will see you as a threat. Director Jones does not like that kind of work place. Do something good or new and you will have the credit. Groups are fine, but a group will never give the credit to only one person, even if they deserve it. Some do not like that, but they stay here because of the money and research available to them. I have seen a lab tech’s name first on more than one paper that has left in the last six months. Credit is due to the person coming up with the findings, not the person directing the research and doing not much else.

In two more steps, she says, "You are replacing Dr. Jacobs. His leaving was sudden. You may hear rumors, but I will tell you the truth, but you will never repeat it, most people know it. Dr. Jacobs was here about six months from Princeton, highly recommended. He was doing well and had a hypothesis that if true would be a break through. Kathy, a lab tech, set up, ran, and modified the experiment. In a month she had more suggestions and ideas than he could handle.

"He replaced her and in her spare time, she went off on one of her own ideas. The Director was well aware of what was going on. To make the story short, she proved Dr. Jacobs wrong at every turn. She was not pushy and after she wrote a draft, she asks Dr. Jacobs to read her results. The Director reads every paper in draft and final form. He found Kathy’s name was replaced with Dr. Jacob’s own and sent it for an early announcement article we publish here.

"I have never seen the Director so disturbed. He took the paper to Dr. Jacobs at 1:15 and at 1:30; he