Best piece of sci-fi I read in 2026 https://qntm.org/mmacevedo #scifi #brainuploading
Lena @ Things Of Interest

#WritingHorrors #1 "Describe a monster from your setting or story."

#Modders #scifi #BrainUploading #alien #microfiction

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Jack shivered involuntarily as he watched the writhing of the multitude of connections, impulses flowing in and out of the visualization, bursts of terrabytes going at the speed of light. This was his third time beholding Collective in its place on the cloud, and still, he found even the simulation of his organic brain unable to process the scope of it.

Nearby, Nuki's avatar, a green dragoness covered in "magical" runes, hung from a set of wires made of pure light, jerking about involuntarily as the hivemind's thoughts flowed through it uncontrollably. He didn't understand the process beyond that, he didn't understand how someone could link to it and still come out comprehending it.

Then again, Nuki had been around for over a century, and the last few decades of that existence had been entirely virtual.

Continuing my #Scifi #Transformation #microfiction about #furries in the 2120s using their #BrainUploading machine to go to space...

Set in the world of #Modders, but no explicit erotica planned for this one...

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Jack felt the world phasing in around him, the different sensations coming in slowly as the lights came on in the room he was in, a mechanism meant to avoid overwhelming a user when they first entered a space, adapted from the slow load-times of the primitive simulated spaces of the early 21st century.

There was something distinctly crisp about the virtual world, as realistic analog senses were replaced by simulated digital ones. Without the limitations of reality, and no reason to dull the senses, it always had a "too vivid to be real" aspect to it. If this didn't make it obvious, the floating text would have...

"Joined Space Habitat Simulator - Departure Acclimation on Baja Space Transmitter Relay as Werewolf Jack"

Interesting quotes from here too...

"Yeah, modern brain-grinders have been able to read a neuron no matter how fucked up it is for decades now. The neuron-resequencers didn't even seem possible until we had quantum cellular field tech... Which required us grind a bunch of physicist brains so they could use cloud-tech to understand it."

They literally call it the brain-grinder, because that's basically what it has to do to scan a neuron. In modern physics, because of distortions at the quantum level combined with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it is impossible to build technology that can reliably scan a neuron without destroying it, let alone technology that can build the operative structures of a neuron to specific spec. They're only a few thousand atoms across.

There's your #SciFi #Futurism / #TransHumanism #QuantumMechanics #BrainUploading / #Neurology / #BioEngineering / #Physics #Science for the day.