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100 1 _aHall, James R.
245 1 0 _aAm I Still There?
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2009
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction September 1963.
500 _aRelease date is 2009-12-26
508 _aProduced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Am I Still There?" by James R. Hall is a science fiction story written in the early 1960s. The narrative revolves around themes of identity and consciousness as it explores the implications of replacive surgery, a futuristic medical procedure allowing human beings to replace their organs, including the brain, with synthetic alternatives. The core topic of the book examines the philosophical questions surrounding what it means to be 'self' when all physical components have been replaced. The story follows Vincent Bonard Lee, an elderly man preparing for a groundbreaking operation where his entire brain will be replaced with an artificial one. Despite his extensive medical history of undergoing numerous replacive surgeries, Lee grapples with existential questions about his identity and essence throughout the narrative. As he faces the reality of becoming the first human to undergo a complete brain substitution, he is haunted by the uncertainty of whether he will still be 'himself' after the operation. Through a conversation with his doctor, Lee confronts the unsettling idea that the entire essence of his being may be lost, prompting profound reflections on personal identity and the human experience in the wake of advanced medical technology. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
700 1 _aSummers, Leo,
_d1925-1985
830 0 _aProduced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction September 1963.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30763
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