Flesh and Silver

“You think the technique we’re perfecting here is inexplicable? That it smacks more of magic or psychic mumbo jumbo than science? Listen, when it comes to the human brain we still have more questions than answers. All higher-order mental activity remains essentially an enigma. Hear the music in the background? That symphony was created by the blob of meat in Mozart’s head! Can you explain that?”

—Dr. Saul Bergmann during an interview by Dr. Susan Stanach on the Sysnet medical magazine Cutting Edge thirteen months before his death in 2049.