"For over a year I did nothing else. I worked tirelessly, as in a fever. The robot grew smarter – I really put a great deal into him. Its artificial mind became a logically closed circuit, self-sufficient, personally complete…"
"The screen was no longer blank; a person was there looking at me with a bright, electric lamp in place of a head. His nervous fingers stiffened impatiently; he needed a confidant and a witness, or else an instructor, a guide. His pose betrayed a habit of deciding for many, but now he was clearly at a crossroads..."
Rene Magritte: The Pleasure Principle
"I formed a small team of some of my former scientist colleagues – all of them had excellent educations, doctorate degrees, and families with nothing to eat. The first five months everything went OK, but then we caught the eye of professional swindlers. They took notice and – quite easily and gracefully – set us up by slipping us some funny C-notes instead of real money…"
"The year our firm went public, I began to feel I wasn’t in control of my life. I was spinning in a whirlpool of events and duties, of the interests and opinions of others; escape seemed impossible. And I liked my life less and less. In fact, I didn’t like it at all. So I made the decision to take a vacation and went, off-season, to Nags Head, NC..."
He didn't expect to wake up dead. Now he wants to prove the afterlife exists.
BASED ON REAL SCIENCE -- see this article for details.
Is there any hope that our memory and consciousness remain intact after death? Could a man with a highly critical mind - a determined physicist - become convinced of such a thing? Yes, he could, if the evidence were undeniable - and he finds such evidence.
Theo, a brilliant scientist with no time for the metaphysical, wakes confused and disoriented but soon replaces his doubt with obsession. He sets out to prove a theory: the human soul can claim an independent existence. What he had considered the dreams of mystics acquires a basis in reality. The laws of karma and the precepts of love, predestination and interlinking fates - all interact, playing their own roles. And he has to make sense of this in a very strange place. A place called Quarantine...
Can he bend his new world to reunite with his soulmate?