{"id":130,"date":"2012-03-04T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2014-07-15T23:12:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T22:12:30","slug":"superior-temporal-gyrus-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Superior temporal gyrus scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brain-scan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131 alignnone\" title=\"brain scan\" src=\"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brain-scan-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brain-scan-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brain-scan-1024x322.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brain-scan.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stood at the edge of the labyrinth. The one I\u2019d designed myself. At the entrance was a tessellated floor, a pattern easy to remember: eight square tiles alternating black and white, arranged around a central red square. Repeated.<\/p>\n<p>The voice of the brain scan, warm and female, began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack \u2026 white \u2026 black \u2026 white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I focused on the voice as it spoke my thoughts, using each word it uttered as a meditative cue. My aim was to create such an entrenched feedback that I would slip into a self-induced trance. A good practitioner could shut down an interrogation scan within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>They knew what I was doing and immediately counteracted. By periodically introducing their own words into the computer they could knock me off balance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBranch,\u201d said the woman\u2019s voice, coaxingly. My mind couldn\u2019t help but grab hold of it. Associative words sprouted, I tried to keep them innocuous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeaf \u2026 green \u2026sunlight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I strove to keep the words above ground, large and unspecific, but they were quick to respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoot,\u201d said the voice, and I struggled to get back to the labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack \u2026 white \u2026 root \u2026 earth \u2026 black \u2026 deep \u2026 buried \u2026\u201d went the voice, persistently.<\/p>\n<p>The maze disintegrated and they had my secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood at the edge of the labyrinth. The one I\u2019d designed myself. At the entrance was a tessellated floor, a pattern easy to remember: eight square tiles alternating black<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Superior temporal gyrus scan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}