Memory
“How cruel is living knowing that it all will be lost in the oblivion of the nothing…” Obsessed by this thought, Aristarco Abelardi, son of a well-known researcher, leads his whole existence working incessantly on an incredible project: together with a qualified scientists crew, he projects the conservation of the memory and maybe of the whole human essence beyond the life. Trough a connection brain-computer, the physic cerebral space could be substitute by a cyberspace in which the mind, reduced to pure software, will move freely. The transfer will encompass the memory of a whole life, the whole essence of the human being and maybe the human soul. Hence the program is called SOUL. Such a news is destined to convulse the consciences of faithful men with an unavoidable impact on the collective imaginary. “Living inside a computer after life means caging the soul?”. Eventually, though agonized and hopeless, the scientist, faithful to his desire of knowledge, will discover the true essence of immortality. Pure science fiction, at the limit of scientific vision, and a suggestive mix of remarks of different kinds between the sociological and the philosophical, the one of Alberto Umbrella, that puts in extreme conflict the relation between man and technology, life and death, memory and oblivious. Into the shoes of a scientific and future-orientated storyteller, the author narrates one of the most ancient fantasies: the hypothesis of a life after life, the immortality of the pure mind. From the Socratic revolution to the contemporary reductive one of the neurosciences and neurobiology the step is big, but the question remains still open: “what is the soul?”
