Abstract

"I sub-2" (for the inception of a second first-person singular) is an exploration of the differences in human experience and motives. It creates an interface for the transmission of one subject's neuronal impulses to another subject, who will experience, while remaining somewhat within his or her own implicit contextual structure, the declarative actions, perceptions, and memories of the other. This will be achieved by processing the impulses through billions of probes in the brain of the first subject, and reproducing these impulses with probes in the second subject (the first and second subjects will be referred to as the “giver” and the “receiver” respectively, borrowing terms from Lois Lowry's 1993 novel The Giver ). The process is an attempt at once to maximize the homogeneity of two people's consciousnesses, and to allow the receiver to experience first-hand the giver's formulation of explicit motives and ideas.