Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Eric Druseikis.
The experiment had long ago breached ethical standards. In fact, they had never really existed. There had been a legal looking document, with legal looking paper and legal looking words and the subject, being unfamiliar with the legal this and legal that agreed to the research procedure despite what he did not know. From the comfort of his chair, which he rarely left now, the scientist observed his subject. He'd forgotten the subjects name long ago and in his head thought of him only as 'the subject.' But that isn't to say he had forgotten his humanity. It was for that very reason that he remained there in his chair. Early in the experiment, when he still bothered to heat the food, when he still monitored with meticulous care the temperature and still documented all that occurred; when the subject still moved and when the subjects eyes had not yet withdrawn, the subject began to speak to himself his thoughts aloud. To whom these were directed to exactly it was unclear, but when everything else stopped, these still occurred. The thoughts themselves encompassed everything, from the most mundane to the most novel, and appeared now involuntary. This subject's thought life, combined with the researcher's own, had captured his imagination entirely and despite all that he saw and knew to be now wrong he could not release him. To the researcher, the barrier that naturally exists between human beings had been broken down and his thoughts were now equally dependent upon the subjects.
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