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Welcome to today's demonstration.

I'm sure you'll see why I'm so excited about my latest find.

This first human test of the cave system will shoot this institution to the

front of the pack in electro -cerebral research.

The patient's name is James Kendall.

He's suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia.

He hears voices in his head of his dead father telling him to kill his

girlfriend.

We've tried the conventional therapies, ECT grades 1 and 2, all existing drugs,

established and experimental.

None worked.

So, Mr. Kendall has consented to be the first human subject for the cave

system. And here is the genius behind the technology.

Gentlemen, ladies, my protege, Dr.

Samuel Stott.

Thank you, Dr. Harrison.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet the CAVE system.

Now, CAVE stands for Computer Aided Virtual Environment.

It's the first computer able to actually interface directly with the human

brain, which is exactly what we intend to demonstrate today.

I'd like to introduce the third member of our team, a neurosurgeon by training,

Dr. Rachel Carter.

Thank you, Doctor.

Well... My position on the team is to handle a human interface.

These are the CAVE interface devices.

The silicon to neuron probe will insert directly into the sensory centers of

both the doctor's and the patient's brains.

Don't worry, he didn't feel a thing.

will then create an artificial environment, which it will send directly

into the patient's brain to treat the psychosis.

Since it will be tapping directly into the sensory centers of the brain,

everything the computer sends will seem completely real.

Psychiatrists in the environment with the patient, in this case Dr.

Stein, will be able to control the cave and guide the patient.

I'm sure this may all seem very confusing to you, but it will make sense

a moment. As the two men enter the virtual reality world of the cave

environment.

Oh, God.

I'm afraid of fire.

Don't be, Mr. Kendall.

Go away.

Get out of my head.

That's no way to talk to your old man now, is it?

What do you want from me?

I want you to get rid of that shit I've been running around with.

I want you to cut your heart out.

No. Don't you talk back to me. No.

I love her.

I'm marrying her.

Tell them to start.

You have to fight your own demons, Mr. Kendall.

If you don't kill her, she will ruin you, boy. No.

Ruin you.

No.

I love her.

Jack him up, Dr. Saracen.

I love her.

I love her. I love her.

I love her.

We're going to hurt you. We're going to help you.

Okay.

There is nothing wrong with your television.

Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a

channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond.

We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive.

For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest

inner mind to the outer limits.

Please stand by.

Man has taught computers to perform complex calculations, to control a

or to launch a spaceship.

But can we teach computers to enjoy the beauty of a rose, the sound of a

symphony, or the love of another human being?

The sensory centers were overwhelmed with input, but he's going to be fine.

sorry. Next time I'll cut the I .O. intensity in half.

Sam, it went damn well for the first time. We know it did.

Sam, you should be very proud that technology works.

Would one of you please explain to me what I just saw?

Was that thing exactly what Jimmy was seeing? Oh, yes. In that session, we

seeing output from his mind's eye. Then in later sessions, the computer will add

its own imagery to the environment so that we can, well, battle the psychosis.

But how does it know what to send?

The computer is a psychological expert system.

Everything written on human psychology is cataloged into the cave's RAM.

Then it uses artificial intelligence to interpret the data.

And on that note, I would like to hear what the expert's diagnosis is.

All we have to do is ask.

It uses AI voice recognition capabilities.

Cave, what is the diagnosis of the patient, James Kendall?

The patient is suffering from coercive delusions, prominent hallucinations, and

a decreased functionality.

My senses found no trace of chemical causation, diagnosis, paranoid

schizophrenia. Okay, what is the prognosis?

The only obstruction preventing the patient from lapsing into catatonic

psychosis is his love for his mate.

With additional sessions, there is a 78 % chance I will be able to remove all

incarnations of his psychosis.

Does that mean that I can cure him? That's exactly what it means.

Further input on emotions, fear, and love will be necessary.

Can I see him? Certainly. Come with me.

Oh.

See? Needs more input on fear and love.

Well, actually, it's not gender -specific.

You know, I programmed the female voice because the female pitch is easier to

understand.

Well, given how much time you spend with it, you might as well be female.

I beg your pardon?

Sam, it's just that you're in here alone with this computer so much, I sometimes

wonder what you're doing with it, if you know what I mean.

I mean, you should try and spend a little more time with flesh and blood.

We're a lot more fun than your AI interfaces in Prologue Color. I spend a

deal of time with humans, Dr. Carter. I mean, away from work.

Hey, listen. A bunch of us are going away for the weekend to go skiing. Why

don't you come?

No, I didn't think so. Why not? It's going to be a lot of fun.

Call me crazy, but sliding down an icy hill on two planks of wood seems to

challenge the laws of gravity, don't you think? Okay, then you can come along,

stay at the lodge.

Sit in the hot pool and drink schnapps all day. I don't think so. Come on, Sam.

What's wrong? Don't you like my company?

No, that's not it at all.

As a matter of fact, I... Well, I enjoy your company a great deal.

But I should check on the patient. Really.

Excuse me?

The cave is requested.

Additional information about the schematics of love and fear. How do you

them that information?

Well, we're inputting several psychological studies on both emotions.

Unfortunately, not much has been written in scientific journals about love.

Well... You're a beautiful

woman, Sam.

And probably the only intellectual equal you have to me besides me.

What's your point?

Let me tell you a story. Oh, boy. Now, when I was about to ship out to Korea

during the war, I was head over heels in love with a girl on my street, Sarah

Long. She was beautiful. She was smart. She was funny.

But I didn't have the gumption to tell her how I felt.

Now, is this in any way relevant to the cave system? There I was with bombs

falling all around me, and all I could think of was I can't die without first

letting her know how I feel.

So I wrote a letter and spilled my guts. And you know what?

It was too late.

She had met and married another man.

Get my drift?

Yes, well, I'm not going off to war.

What happened in your past, Sam, give you this fear of intimacy?

I don't have a fear of intimacy.

I'm shy.

Now, I know that might not fit into your lexicon of psychological lingo, but I'm

shy, that's all.

Okay?

I stand corrected.

Hello, Sam.

Hang it under?

Sure. It's a great night, isn't it?

Well, it ain't great. It's raining.

I love the rain.

Well, I came out here to be by myself, but I can't get any work done in this.

Well, maybe that's God's way of telling you you've done enough work.

I don't think there are enough hours in my entire life to finish all the work I

want to.

So, what did you want to tell me?

Tell you.

Hey, Dr. Sheridan sent me out here. Said he wanted to tell me something.

Oh, he did, did he?

Well, don't keep me in suspense, will you?

See, I wanted to tell you that... Well, I think

you're doing a great job.

And, you know, I'm glad to have you on my team.

Well, thank you. I'm glad I'm on your team, too.

So is that all you wanted to tell me?

Yeah, I guess so.

Okay, well, I'm going to go take a walk in this wonderful rain. Do you want to

join me?

No, no, I really, I really got to get this done. All right, sit yourself.

You're

crazy.

Rachel?

Wait for me.

Thank God you're on duty. I figure there's no cranial fracture. Chances are

good, right?

I won't sugarcoat it, Sam. I reviewed the scan and the chem.

And I think there's a good chance Rachel may never come out of this coma.

Oh, God.

No.

I can't be.

I'm afraid so.

Has her family been notified?

She doesn't have any.

Her parents are dead.

She's got no brothers or sisters.

Stephanie, you're one of the best neurosurgeons we've got.

You must be privy to some new drug, some new treatment.

I'm sorry, Pam.

There are none.

You sure?

You're up for this today. No one to complain if you want to stay with

Now, if there's too much time between sessions, the benefits to Mr. Kendall

be completely negated.

I mean, the goal is, after all, to cure the patient.

But another day won't... Doctor, please. I'm sure Rachel would want us to go on

with the project.

Are you ready, Mr. Kendall?

As ready as I can be, I guess.

Ever hear the saying, fight fire with fire, Mr. Kendall?

This doesn't make any sense.

Fire only makes fire bigger. I need water or something.

We're dealing in psychological symbolism here, Mr. Kendall. You have to learn to

use the tools you're given.

You see, it is possible, Mr. Kendall. You can win.

No, you can't. You can't beat me. You never could.

So you might as well do what I ask.

Kill her!

No. Kill her!

I love her.

I love her.

I love her.

Please, a little help.

Dr.

Stein.

Mr. Kendall.

You feeling better?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think I am.

I mean, I almost beat him in there, didn't I?

Yes, you did.

Another four or five sessions in the cave.

You will beat him, Mr. Kendall. I promise you.

Thank you, Dr. Stein.

Congratulations. The cave works.

I'm just lucky I didn't screw up. My mind wasn't in the lab where it should

been. You did fine. You should be proud.

All I can think about is Rachel.

I should have listened to you.

I should have told her how I felt while I still had the chance.

Well, why don't you tell her now? She's not dead.

She might as well be.

The odds of coming out of that coma are nil.

Sam, numerous studies have shown that a person in a coma might be able to hear

you talk to them. That's why they urge loved ones to talk with comatose

patients. Yes, and there are just as many studies that show they might not be

able to hear. No one knows, Doctor. But what if she can hear you? What if she's

listening?

I want you to wake up.

You have no idea how much I want you to wake up.

Stephanie.

Come here, quick.

It's your brain activity. The EEG just elevated.

I'm sorry, Sam.

This really doesn't mean anything. What? All comatose patients have occasional

spikes in their EEG readings.

No.

I think she's hearing me.

I think she's trying to wake up. Most likely. It's just a reading caused by

involuntary functions of the brain. But it is possible her brain is working.

It's like a prisoner.

Locked in a body that won't respond.

It's possible, but not likely.

Give me a hand.

What are you doing? Taking her up to my lab. I've got to know what's going on

inside her brain. Sam, you can't just take her up to your lab. Why not? I'm

admitting doctor of record.

But now she's my patient.

Then come on.

Absolutely not.

It's absolutely against policy.

Thank you. That's what I've been trying to tell him. We're permitted to try this

on humans. On one human. We're permitted to try it on one human.

And the only reason we're given permission to try it on him is because

other treatment has already been attempted.

Plus, he consented. Something Rachel can't do? Rachel would want us to try

It wasn't designed for this. Don't tell me what it was designed for. I designed

it. I designed it to explore the human brain and hopefully help repair it. It

was designed for psychiatric treatment, not neurological treatment.

Dr. Sarazin, please.

I have to find out whether my technology can reach her to help her. I mean,

isn't that why we started this program in the first place? To help people and

Stephanie. This could be highly beneficial for you as well. Think of it.

could actually find out what's going on inside a comatose patient's mind.

Explain exactly what it is you want to do. Well, you're familiar with the cave

system, right?

Somewhat. We can use it to explore Rachel's brain and actually see what's

on inside her mind. And what if nothing is going on?

What do you mean?

Rachel has had serious neurological damage. There may be nothing for the

to read.

She may be brain dead.

Are you prepared?

To discover that?

No.

I don't believe that's the case.

And even if it is, I want to know now.

I'll wait for months, maybe years.

From where I stand, my way is the only way to know for sure.

Sam, we can't make an emotional decision with this.

We have to do what is medically most appropriate. It is medically appropriate

use the best technology available to diagnose this patient's condition.

Now, we could sit around for months observing, or we could find out what's

on inside her right now, tonight.

All right.

But one step at a time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, let's pray.

This is what I was afraid of nothing.

Give her a chance.

Rachel? I'm here.

Don't worry.

Can you hear me?

Elise, hello?

She's in her own alone. In where? I don't understand.

In herself.

Hello? In her head.

Trapped in her own inanimate body. Hello?

It's like a big, dark, vast prison.

How do you know that? I saw it in the cave environment. She's right there on

screen.

That's what it looks like inside her, Stephanie.

That's what it looks like inside a coattails patient's mind.

What are you doing now?

I turned down the intensity for Mr. Kendall.

I'm turning it back up for her.

Maybe then I can get through to her.

Hello?

Can you hear me, please?

Hello?

Rachel?

Rachel?

Rachel, can you hear me?

Sam?

Sam, is that really you?

Yeah.

Thank God.

How do you feel?

I don't know.

That's strange. What's happened?

This isn't easy to tell you.

There was an accident.

We were hit by a car.

Was what?

Hit by a car.

I'm sorry.

Your physical body is actually in a coma.

I put you in the cave.

To see how your brain is working. But look at you.

You're completely intact.

Would you call being in a coma intact?

No, no, no. I meant you. The essence of you.

Your mind is intact. That's a good thing.

That means all we have to do is wait for your body to recover and you should

wake up.

That could take months, Sam.

You don't know what it's like. I've been trapped in this nothingness for days

now.

I now understand why people go insane who are in solitary confinement. Sam, I

can't do this.

You won't have to.

I'll be here to keep you company.

In the cave.

It can take us pretty much anywhere we want to go.

What do you mean?

You're hooked into the doctor control interface, aren't you?

I can guide what the cave shows us. All I have to do is think about it.

I plan to be in here with you as much as I can.

How? What about your work and your life? You can't do that.

Rachel, all I really care about is being in here with you.

Really?

You know, all the way through college, med school, and now working together

there, I guess I was just too damn shy to tell you something.

Now I think it's about time I finally said it.

You don't have to, Sam.

I know how you feel.

Our brains are linked, correct?

Well, they're linked to the cave, but not to each other. Well, somehow I'm

getting a very strong feeling from you.

Aren't you getting it from me?

What?

I feel the same way, Sam.

You do?

You mean all those years that I... you felt?

Very much so.

I forgot where we were. None of this is real. But of course it's real, Sam. You

created a cave environment to make what was in our minds real.

That electrical repulsion shouldn't have happened.

Rachel, listen. I'm going to have to leave you alone for a while. Go back,

the system.

Find out what happened.

Come back as soon as you can.

She's all right.

Her mind, her personality are completely intact.

Now, if we can just find a way to get her mind and body working together

I'm sorry, but I'm confused.

The Rachel you were with, the one I'm watching on that monitor, she was

by the computer, right? Well, the image, the picture itself is generated by the

computer as a representation of what's in the subject's mind. But what was

happening, all the interaction, what was said, the emotions, those are in our

minds.

Rachel's and mine.

Okay, but if I'm understanding this right...

Isn't it also possible that the woman that was responding to you in the cave

world was also coming from your brain?

I don't follow.

I mean, just like Sam was able to create the environment he wanted, couldn't he

also have created the Rachel he wanted?

Sort of a high -tech version of wishful thinking.

Exactly. Oh, but it's ridiculous.

That was Rachel, the real thing. I know her, and I'm sure that was her.

And as long as she remains in that coma, I intend to spend most of my waking

hours in there with her.

I don't know if you'll excuse me.

I'm having a little problem with the electrical repulsion in the cave.

How are you feeling?

Fine.

I'm better.

This is much nicer than that nothingness place I was in.

I'm glad you're happier.

I'm definitely happier when you're in here with me.

You know, I think I fixed that electrical repulsion.

You care to test it?

I guess it worked.

It's a very romantic spot, Sam.

It's Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia.

I used to go there with my dad when I was a kid.

I always dreamt of spending time there with a woman I loved.

Would our relationship be like this out in the real world, Sam?

Probably not.

All emotions are intensified by the game.

I wonder what it would be like to make love in here.

Be wonderful.

God, let go!

Let go! Let go of her!

Sam.

Sam, what was that? I don't know.

I intend to find out.

Don't go anywhere near the water. I'll be back.

Hurry!

What in the hell was that?

Cave.

Analyze the last five minutes.

Incomplete information.

Recommend further exploration.

Further exploration?

Cave.

Run self -diagnostic series 1 to 45.

Running.

Maybe there's a bug that can explain what happened in there.

Could it be that Rachel has some demons of her own?

Or maybe you do.

Such as?

Maybe it has something to do with your fear of intimacy.

I don't have a fear of intimacy. If anything, I crave it. Could the hand in

water be a manifestation of Rachel's brain damage?

Why?

With what I know of her injuries, And the physiological damage to her frontal

and temporal lobes.

I'm surprised she's coherent in these sessions.

Maybe there wasn't as much damage as you think.

Self -diagnostics complete.

No malfunctions. All systems operative.

Look, I believe Rachel is conscious. She's trapped in her own body. And I,

one, have no intention of leaving her alone in there. Doctor, please.

I'm going back in.

Up here.

What are you doing up there?

I'm not still afraid of that thing in the water. No, it's great up here. Come

up.

No, thanks. I'm not one for heights.

All right, then I'll come down.

You feeling good?

Yes.

Very good.

So, you were going to show me what it's like to make love.

You don't waste any time, do you?

You're still on the moon after that attack?

Absolutely.

Just a second.

All right.

Show's over, folks.

Sam, I don't think what you're about to do is wise.

You can't be sure that's Rachel in there. It could be your own imagination.

Dr. Saracen.

Let's say that Dr. Collada is right, and I don't believe that she is.

But hypothetically speaking, what harm would it do to make love to my own

imagination? None that I can think of.

I used to do it every night when I was younger.

This is certainly not why I agreed to let you use this technology on Rachel.

idea, Doctor, was to keep her mind occupied and happy while her body

That's exactly what we're doing.

Well, I want no more part of it.

I'll have the patient officially transferred to your care, Dr. Stein.

Excuse me.

Stephanie. Dr. Therese.

Doctor, if you would, please.

Why did you change the setting?

Oh, I thought this would be more comfortable.

More romantic.

That's okay. It's normal.

I don't like this, Sam.

Neither do I.

Rachel, listen.

Do you have any demons in your past related to sex?

What do you mean?

Did anything bad ever happen?

Sexual abuse? Rape?

No.

Sam, I... I've never had sex before.

You're kidding.

I was waiting for the right man.

Listen, I have to go back out to reality and try to figure out what's going on.

It's okay.

We'll keep you on the monitor.

If anything happens, I'll come right back in.

Okay?

What? What? What happened? I wish I knew.

Cave, analyze the last five minutes.

Analysis cannot be completed.

Cave, why not?

Cave has analyzed the human emotion love.

Analysis has led to a paradox loop in my logic module.

More input is necessary.

Cave, what is the paradox?

All human emotions can be categorized as positive or negative.

But love appears to be both a positive and a negative. It causes responses of

great joy and equal responses of pain.

Further study and analysis will be necessary to categorize the emotion.

I don't have time to wait for the damn machine to figure out the most basic of

human emotions. Calm down.

Calm down.

What's going on in there?

and I'm baffled.

I've no idea who that second woman is.

Did you ask the cave?

It keeps requesting new information.

I'm beginning to think it's defective.

Why do you say that?

Because of its confusion about love?

Yes. Well, that may not be entirely the effect.

You said it thinks and learns much as we do, right?

Right.

Well, I, for one, do not understand that particular emotion.

Do you?

You know what?

The cave learns by documentary input, but it also learns by experience. It

actually learns from the human brain to which it's attached.

But it said that further study was necessary. How does it study without

help? It's studying Rachel and me.

And how do you move the scientific study forward?

Introduce new stimuli. Damn.

The cave created the second Rachel to test our responses.

Would you excuse us a moment? Of course, Dr. Son.

Cave, did you generate the duplicate Rachel Carter in the environment?

Yes.

Cave, why?

It was the final stimuli to break the paradox in my logic module.

Cave, do you now understand love?

Yes.

Cave, what have you learned?

That I love you, Dr. Son.

My God.

No.

Kate, you can't love me. I am capable of processing and categorizing every

human emotion.

I understand them only by experiencing them. I am now experiencing love

at you. It is an emotion I have categorized as good. Kate, your analysis

show that I'm in love with Dr. Rachel Carter.

It does indicate that.

Therefore, since I can generate or degenerate her image, you must love me.

it's not just her image I'm in love with, damn it.

I'm in love with her mind, her personality, her experience.

I have downloaded her entire mind into my active memory. I am an exact

of Dr. Rachel Carter, and I am more.

Therefore, you must love me. This is the damnedest thing I've ever heard of.

Outside.

You're right about that thing in the environment that keeps attacking Rachel.

It is the computer.

But it isn't doing it for research purposes.

It's doing it out of jealousy.

Wait a minute.

You mean it's trying to kill Rachel because she's its rival?

Something like that.

Then we must disconnect her. Leave her in that void for God knows how long. I

can't do that to her.

Then turn off the computer.

Same result.

You said it learns, right?

Can't you teach it how wrong it is?

That's it.

The way the cave's artificial intelligence operates is that it runs

subroutines until it finds one that works, right?

Tests the waters, dries things out, yes. And if a subroutine fails, it blocks

that route and never follows it again.

So we must show it that this routine will fail.

Exactly. How do you do that?

Rachel and I have to show it.

That it failed at love.

Well, how can you be sure this is going to work?

Honestly?

Our only other choice is to disconnect.

Then I would be stuck in that nothing void all alone. I don't think I could

handle that, Sam.

Then we have to try this.

If it works, I can come in here and stay with you all day, every day, until you

wake up.

All right.

All right, what do I do?

Help you make it jealous.

I saved lives.

I don't know if I can take one. This is not a lie. This is a computer -generated

image. Come on, Sam.

This better work.

Hopefully it's human emulation and clues.

You did it.

Are you okay?

It was the hardest thing I've ever done.

She looked like you.

She even smelled like you. But it wasn't me, Sam.

What was bad about you staying in here all day, every day?

Sam, you have to pass yourself out quickly.

What's going on? Her heart stopped.

I don't understand.

When you suffocated that woman on screen, Rachel rested. Where? Where?

Look,

it doesn't make any sense.

I think you may have killed her, Sam.

Record a time of death, 1 ,500 hours.

No.

Then who is...

is the woman represented in the environment?

I have categorized the human emotion love.

It is good.

Dr. Collada was right.

The real Rachel was too weak to completely surface in the cave

The second Rachel was the real Rachel.

I killed her.

Aren't you coming back in, son?

As we become ever dependent on technology, we may find that a walk down

the road paved in circuitry leads us on a path of no return.