Your Utopia by Bora Chung

Author:Bora Chung [Chung, Bora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2024-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

After the scan, as usual, I sit by her and read to her from a paper on space exploration.

“Refraction Effects. Refraction has two key effects on occultation observations. The first, and most familiar, is the bending of a light ray as it passes through the atmosphere. This effect is characterized by the refraction angle, omega, which is the angle between the original ray path and the exit path. Generally, the refraction angle is a function of wavelength (due to the wavelength-dependent index of refraction of the atmosphere), and causes a distinction between a ray’s impact parameter, beta, and its distance of closest approach to the planet, rho-min.”3

Scanning someone’s consciousness and memory is very different from physical imaging. The images that need scanning exist only in the subject’s memory, and they have substance only within the cognitive and sensory limits of the subjects. For example, scanning a blind person’s memories will only show a dark screen with sound, which requires 4D apparatus to recreate touch and smell to achieve a full scan. With the deaf, there is less, if any, aural information, but their visual information tends to be clearer and wider-ranging than that of hearing people. We’re not saying “clearer” as in well-focused, but that the visual information usually leaves a stronger impression in the subject’s mind. In this case, the idea that a disability in one mode of perception stimulates the development of another is both true and not true.

All these memories and experiences are passed on as electrical signals in the brain and stored through the breakdown and creation and recombination of proteins. The process of retrieving the memories happens through electrical signals, which means before the computer reinterprets the data into something humans can understand, it’s probably a bunch of white and black points, zeros and ones in billions and trillions of rows.

I imagine the rows looking like stars streaking by from the inside of a spaceship moving faster than light through the darkness of space.

I adjust my sitting position. Clearing my throat, I continue to read aloud about how a spacecraft takes a picture of Saturn’s satellites.

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