"FWLS63" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"Disk?" I asked, confused.

"I'll guess 'yes'," Doc said. "Memory loss can be dealt
with. All AIs keep memory backups, which can be accessed by
trying to access the lost records. It's a simple system to
replace defective memories on demand. Although why they're not
copied out of the backups right now, I don't know. The backups
ARE there. The gap is there too, oddly."

"I've tried remembering," I said. "Just one big gap, no
idea what it should be. That's why I'm here."

"That's the problem!" Doc exclaimed, smiling. "I see! You
don't even know what you should be looking for, so you can't even
access the archives."

Doc set the stethoscope down, considering the situation.
For a moment I thought he had fallen asleep, but then he looked
up with an idea glimmering in his eyes.

"What I need you to do is tell me," Doc started, "If there's
ANYTHING you do that could lead to those memories. Any
activities that seem strangely familiar? Any beliefs that have
carried over that could lead to more?"

"None I think of at the moment," I said.

"Surely there must be SOMETHING. I can see the pathways, I
just can't tell what they're triggered by. That is something
only you know."

"But I DON'T know! That's what I came here for. Look, Doc,
I'm confused, tired, and I don't know who I am. I don't want
techie jargon right now. I know what you're talking about,
because I have memory archives of every word's definition, but I
don't understand how it's going together. All you're doing right
now is making my head spin."

Doc examined me again. "Your head isn't spinning."

"It's a figure of speech, Doc. I'm confused, depressed, and
generally down in it and I want to be told in SIMPLE WORDS
exactly what I have to do to settle this once and for all!"

"Alright," Doc replied, thinking hard. His forehead nearly
pulsed with the thought impulses. "What did you do for a living
before?"

"Nothing. I can't remember."