time t revel

A person sits in a chair in the corner. Wires trace along the wall from the person to a machine. Two others sit near by.

Something went wrong a few years ago in the lab. There is still brain activity but it is very abnormal. People can operate almost any piece of equipment with a thought and yet we are still powerless to understand what is going on inside this person’s head.

This one is trapped inside itself. The rest of us are captives of conflict and fear. If we can’t fully decode the human brain how can we ever decode the human heart?

Meanwhile, the person in the corner lives life in reverse. The individual’s body is 57 but the mind is now 53. This will continue for another 53 years, at which point the mind will unteather and split. Part of consciousness will continue backward in time from gametes to parent cells. Another part will drift through the cosmos experiencing the birth and death of a star, the rise and fall of sentience, and the flow of energy from our universe into the next. Then the body will die and all will come to a close.

Dusk. The greenish glow of the machines fills the room with silence.

Tags: brain, consciousness, light, mind, science fiction, time, universe