As a first experiment in a new technology, the memories of English Professor Richard Williams
are sent back in time into the mind of writer Dorrie Ledbetter right before her untimely
death to see if those memories can cause her to leave a clue about the meaning of an
ambiguous story.
We think we have a way to record the quantum state of a present-day brain onto a brain
somewhere in the past in such a way that the patterns in the receiving brain will
duplicate those in the source brain, and that as a result the receiving brain will
acquire the memories of the source brain.
DEBUT
“Remembrance of Things to Come,” in Analog,April 1999.
VARIANTS
Debut. “Remembrance of Things to Come,” in Analog,April 1999.
We think we have a way to record the quantum state of a present-day brain onto a brain
somewhere in the past in such a way that the patterns in the receiving brain will
duplicate those in the source brain, and that as a result the receiving brain will
acquire the memories of the source brain.
1 English variant