Zeta reports that the
Asimov Replicoid has completed another session inside the
AR Simulation of Eternity. Asimov discovered that after the death of Demon Prince
Howard Treesong,
Alice Wroke,
Kirth Gersen and
Karalin Umdys visited the
Cora System. They had originally suspected that they might find evidence of human genetics experiments on the planet
Methel, but their investigation soon led them to
Dar Sai where they discovered a secret human genetics laboratory.
Mind Transfer
Back when I was in my personal golden age of discovering printed science fiction, I read the story "
Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson in
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Poul Anderson earned a degree in physics, but his fictional biology was quite disappointing for me to wade through even as a teenager.
In "Call Me Joe", Anderson not only imagines complex life on Jupiter but some sort of
hyper-accelerated evolution of an advanced human-like pseudojovian by Earthly scientists (starting from atmospheric spores scooped up from the high clouds of Jupiter). With a few decades of artificial evolution, a replica of the human brain is crafted inside a beast with Jovian biochemistry.
The pseudojovian must have a human brain in order for it to be psionically linked with the brain of a human. In "Call Me Joe", Anderson tells us little about the future science "psibeam" that is used to link a human in orbit to the pseudojovian on Jupiter. For the
Exode Saga, I imagine that the basis for
telepathy was a strange type of physics involving imaginary particles:
hierions.
According to Zeta, in the
Asimov Reality, the
bumpha "revealed" the fact that the
Trilateroids had been developed as part of an ancient study of telepathy. In that
Reality, human telepathy was pushed to its peak through intensive human breeding experiments.
Writing here in the Final Reality,
Jack Vance left many hints in his stories that
Gersen and Glawen both had a low -but noticeable- level of telepathic ability. Apparently, the bumpha could provide any human with a "telepathy amplifying" nanite prosthetic, and Gersen and Glawen were two of the people in the Asimov Reality who had their innate telepathic abilities boosted by the bumpha.
According to Zeta, Kirth Gersen was able to make use of his amplified telepathic abilities to find the secret laboratory on Dar Sai where the
pek were carrying out human breeding experiments. Those experiments culminated in the creation of special combinations of genes derived from both the
Methelen and the
Darsh.
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Isaac Asimov as a character in the Exode Saga
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