98. The Odor Photographer

Closely associated with amygdala, which is the brain region that encodes our emotions, perception of smell evokes or recalls our deeper feelings like no other perceptions. It has even been shown that sometimes olfactory likes and dislikes are purely based on emotional associations without any elements of subjective judgment. Smell are such personal experience that we could hardly have any chance to share or pass across, nor could it be reasonably describable. She has always been thinking of ways to capture her innermost feelings in response to smells. And it appears that the best way to do so is to record the smell itself. Light can be captured on film, with images digitally recorded in pixels. How about smell, whose identity is made up of various forms of molecules? While she was very young, she once attempted to store the kitchen smell into her favorite bottle and opened it up when she felt hungry again.  However, the molecules danced in a way beyond her control. The only best way to record the smell, rather than trying to keep it, would be to reproduce it. Now she holds an odor camera, being the only one photographer of its kind. The camera serves as a scanner once letting in new smells, and keeps their structures in its digital memory. To 'view' them, it has to been connected to a molecule printer where same structures of particles are reproduced and released, which then trigger the same experience of odor. Now she could confidently depict the most emotional dimension of our sensory experience without the usage of a single word.  

99. The 3D Dancer

          In the eyes of other people, she dances skillfully and elegantly, but there always exists a sort of tension that she finds difficult to get rid of. She feels it in every move, the forces that bring her back to earth painfully every time when she jumps high and is about to fly. She cannot follow properly the rhythm of the melody, for she cannot control her pace so nicely when she is trying to do another spinning in the air, at a uniform speed as smoothly as the music itself. But now, she eventually steps on the stage that she deserves, in a spacecraft! No gravity! There is no such thing as a 2D dance floor, for she is totally in the 3D air, or probably she has the option of many dance floors at six faces of the room. She is able to stretch her body as gently and as slowly as she like, and float in the air as long as she wants. She feels her energy flowing in the body, and evenly distributed without any external disturbance. Her body, her dance, and her life are set free totally! The outer space is her new home!

100. The Brain Savior

The mortality of human beings hardly enters her mind. If the dreams could be such vivid and real with details, it is only subject to our capability of properly preserving the brains can the eternity be finally reached.  Once only being a thought experiment, ‘Brian in a vat’ depicts such possibility of connecting a supercomputer to a disembodied brain suspended in a vat of life-sustaining liquid, and simulating electrical signals identical to what would be received in reality. As a result, absolutely conscious experiences would be maintained without the actual presence or connection to real objects or events in the world. She has her company now, in running such business of preserving the lives of millions or more. When asked about her ultimate vision of launching such ambitious project,  she talks about compassion, about regrets, rather than the avarice of the human kind. The brain is such delicate storage device built up by year of experiences of a person, among all walks of life, being a carpenter or a Hierarch. During one’s lifetime, a writer might be able to record down some words on a notebook, a professor some wisdom on his students, and an artist some ideas on her sculptures. But for some other people, very unique and different stories might never have a chance to share with many upon death when all the data is deleted from the decomposing brain. The preserving of the brain thus a life is more significant to other lives than to itself, when the brains are all connected to the central supercomputer that does the final collection and is the training machine of all. The life experience of a single brain would then be recorded, analyzed, and eventually compensated by the resulting simulation that brings up moments that were absent but strongly desired in its lifetime. She calls it the ultimate connection of the mankind.