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“We started with an fMRI helmet,” the doctor told him.
He hadn’t offered his name and Harvey hadn’t asked.
“But were unable to achieve the minimum response times required. Scalp-mounted EEG electrodes lacked the necessary accuracy. Directly implanted electrodes proved to be the solution.”
Harvey tried not to squirm. He was sitting in a chair not all that different from an electric chair and he had to hope that he wasn’t about to be executed. His arms and legs were fully immobilized in padded clamps. His head was secured against movement in a rig that would be claustrophobic to anyone not used to a modern Air Force pilot’s helmet. And the back of his head was bare for the surgeon to access.
He wanted to tell the doc to just shut the hell up and do it before he lost his nerve. But th
