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patients held in telaportational stasis have a poor track record though for some it is preferable, especially as it allows for interventions not otherwise conceivable, including rapid triage and interventions at the orgenel level.

a famous case involved a surgery of a patient whose brain has just begun to explode at a philosophical debate. the surgery took 9.5 years, involved 20,000 personnel, 650 heads of surgery, spread over 14 months.

the most interesting cases go to the most curing edge surgeons in the world. experimental hospitals gain prestige by taking on the most grissly cases

when she left surgery she finished the last words of her statement, but couldn't get unstuck for some time after that. she would slip back into the debate constantly with nurses, patients, doctors, but if they responded in kind she could maintain much longer coherency and working memory, and eventually longer term recall if framed as part of the debate

it seems that in stasis the brain can receive some chronometric data but not others. electricity and chemical feedback are effected in different ways by stasis, for example. the trauma of being yanked half out of time for even the tens of minutes that patients experience if they have to be transferred to multiple hospitals

undergoing transfer especially out of a single facility's circuit is statically impactful, as is being spread out across multiple operating rooms as both can amplify time drift and other effects,

the Philosopher was accessed at 2,105 sites, routinely 40 or more consecutively.

her whole brain had to be surveyed completely 9 times, and especially but not only limited to the first 4 surveys they couldn't map onto a typical human brain since they were not in the places or states that human brains typically are.

even by the final survey before the final steps to bring her out of stasis they had to acknowledge that in the course of the inter, surgeries, recuperation, observation, biopsing, etc processes, many functions had been force bootstrapped into taking on alternate or double encoding or connected

was she conscious? the philosopher herself has contributed two Imperial lectures on the subject and has a forthcoming collection of essays, to say nothing of the many interviews with doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, family members. in deference to her having the final word, we will summarize her own statements at the end.

the general consensus of her doctors is that regardless of what we mean by consciousness, from a biochemical perspective she underwent incredibly taxing and involved changes which could not fail to have an impact on her upon waking. many surveyers reported ongoing highly dynamic processes occurring throughout nearly all the steps and stages of reconstruction.

the identification of data resembling the final words she spoke prior to extraction in her working memory after months of labor hours was initially taken as the modest sign that they had not been too late to restore at least some semblance of brain function, enough that is to repeat a short set of syllables. so much data had been scrambled by the blast, yet for the days to actually be destroyed was of course impossible. what was left was the long slow journey through a field of red mist to piece back as much

one can't just scan a brain, you need the velocity of it's moving parts to know what it's doing, which processes will overtake and subsume and deflect and warp off which. she had sat for medical scanning prior to teleportation for the galaxi exchange, as well as one before as an adolescent. two scans in grad school and once in early childhood but were judged of insufficient quality and format for their purposes initially.

prior to the debate in question itself, a two week fan scan was administered as routine entry for all finalists four months prior and another was performed lasting into in the final ten days, which was a precaution for particularly politically sensitive philosophers who had had many credible threats on their lives. during the last 36 hours four deep tissue scans were done as a matter of security. vollies of scans were done remotely, from within the same room and from outside of the palace complex especially when she would step out to a balcony or garden. a hair dresser in the Iron and Jade Lake District of the city who had been put in touch with the Architects by way of a resistance organizer facilitated most of the deep scan metrics, as did a passing cab.

scans like these offer data which is useful but not directly applicable to stasis surgeons. only deep protected scans can record high density live data and the observer effects are pronounced. few philosophers want the groggy effects and boredom of the thousands of surgery questions of sitting through such a scan during a galaxi debate.

the philosopher was close to another rising star, the therorist. as coalitions of teachers and disciples emerged, schools of thought subsumed or reformed or refuted with such force as to render their original insights unthinkable, the therorist looked to have an outside shot for leader of the opposition to the current hegemonic paradigm favored by the emperor, as well as to the reformed version favored by the heir apparent.

if the therorist could present herself, her school, her lineage, as the loyal opposition, she might succeed in driving certain fundemental contradictions in the heart of the paradigm into explicit articulation, enough to make it's coalition no longer viable. if these then went unaddressed, she might well be set up to lead the opposition into resistance, and make her theories the lingua philosphica at the courts of all dissatisfied and rebelling princes. she's might even be invited to help form the next hegemony, whether under this emperor or his heir or in the replacement dynasty/ies likely to follow if her arguments and policies failed to be implemented.

the philosopher and the therorist discussed all this openly. this was part of the legitimate processing of government. they spoke less often and less openly of arguments against the very legitimacy of the princess, the ruling algorithms, the foundations of government and anarchy, of civil war as opposed to the orderly, ritualized wars and games over which the emperor was supreme referee, of strikes and blockades in progress but unorganized.

they spoke in allusion about assassination and sabotage.

they spoke by absences about revolution and terrorism

the architects were not interested in the theorists campaign for leader of the opposition. their interest in the philosopher had to due with her theory of ontology and it's challenge to bedrock assumptions about the self, authority, legitimacy, epistemology, ethics, and self conscious thought. her cousins were so radical that the masters she questioned warned her not to delve too deep or her brain would explode. and it did. the entire Eastern terrace of the serene glacier moon Palace collapsed.

it was an attack on the imperial family and the assembled philosophers and the empire and every faction who had sent masters to participate, and the architects who removed her were only able to do so because the regent had contacted them in advance and had them deliver her into their custody.

they had not expected her to make the proof explicit until before the emperor or his ministers or the assembled leaders of the galaxi or the sitting of the diet.

precautions had been taken. the regency was desperate to know the details of the proof, to master and dispel it, and certainly to keep it out of the hands of rival courts. but they had not expected it to be so cataclysmic, and it was only luck that the heir, whose apartments were located above the east terrace, had been slightly delayed in setting off for home that the blast did not kill him. as it was, much of his household and many dignitaries, masters, servants, and guards were killed or wounded.

the question of whether the philosopher could stand trial, given that she could only communicate by extending her debate, was left to a court composed of philosophers who despised her but were under strict orders to ascertain her insights. they questioned the Architects but interrogations during her brain scans and then later during the surgery itself proved cryptic.

the thought experiment involving two omniscient sages sitting across from each other who cannot tell which one is which, as they both have unadulterated access to each other's senses as well as their own devolved into name calling.

civil wars and suicides followed the attempts to refute her postulate that the sovereign must be destroyed in order to prevent it from changing itself against it's own will.

her call to simulate religious rituals rather then have them performed in order to guard against impiety in the hearts of the participants led to the collapse of two of the oldest most well established cults in the empire.

her charge of illegitimacy of philosophy on the basis of the the impossibility of question and answer drove the conference to name her Hereisarch but no one could successfully prosecute her without finding themselves trapped in a labrynth of self defeating dogma.

after she had been revived for sixteen weeks, the emperor sent through proxies a letter asking after her health and her expirences during the surgery. when her head doctor relayed this she gave no sign of hearing, but the next day in the presence of a legate and murmered a formula which resolved a crisis the emperor was facing in the discharge of his imperial oath, but which obliged him to commit huge forces to the frontiers of his empire in a bid to win the hand of the chief priestess of an oracle. they sent word to the philosopher asking what to ask the Oracle to oblige the priestess to marry. she would not answer. they brought her before the scholarch of the conference. she refused. they brought her before the chief minister, likewise. the regent, she stayed silent. finally the emperor himself, all of twelve years old, had her brought before him and asked the question.

"ask her what words if uttered will kill the emperor. if she says them, her coalition will fall apart as their common enemy will be defeated. if she refuses to say them, ...