"Michael Swanwick - Trojan Horse" - читать интересную книгу автора (Swanwick Michael)

programming already crammed into their heads.



"So to date we've been working with the natural wetware.



We counterfeit surface traits-patience, alertness, creativity- and package them like so many boxes of
bonemeal. But the human mind is vast and unmapped, and it's time to move into the interior, for some
basic research.



"That's the Star Maker project. It's an exploration of the basic substructural programming of the mind.
We've rede-fined the overstructure programs into an integrated system we believe will be capable of
essence-programming, in one-to-one congruence with the inherent substructure of the universe.''



"What jargonistic rot!" Landis gestured at Elin's stone-ware mug. "Drink up. The Star Maker is a piece
of experi-mental theology that IGF dreamed up. As Tory said, it's basic research into the nature of the
mind. The Vatican Synod is providing funding so we can keep an eye on it."



"Nipping heresy in the bud," Tory said sourly.



"That's a good part of it. This set of wetware will suppos-edly reshape a human mind into God. Bad
theology, but there it is. They want to computer-model the infinite. Anyway, the specs were drawn up,
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and it was tried out on-what was the name of the test subject?"



"Doesn't matter," Tory said quickly.



"Coral something-or-other."



Only half-listening by now, Elin unobtrusively studied Tory. He sat, legs wide, staring into his mug of