Horizons of Mind

“The best definition I know of neurosis and psychosis is this: the psychotic knows that two and two make five and thinks you’d have to be crazy not to see it. Whereas the neurotic knows perfectly well that two and two make four—and finds it intolerable.”
Mémoire de singe et paroles d’homme - Boris Cyrulnik

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NBIC: Nanotechnologies, Biotechnologies, Information Technology, and Cognitive Sciences

To train a new generation of secret agents, the CIA and the NSA decide to recruit young people who are traumatized—affected by post-traumatic stress, dissociative identity disorder, complex psychotrauma, or catatonic schizophrenia…

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Professors Norman Drake and Barret Singleton of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, together with Zakary Fitzgérald, an NSA agent and nanoscience expert, and Roselyn Shandelers, a CIA agent specializing in Artificial Intelligence, meet in the NSA laboratories in Maryland (United States). There, they draft an experimental protocol designed to use trauma as a catalyst: to increase resistance to pain, amplify physical power, and enable the synthesis of enzymes and hormones that would make it possible to exploit certain areas of the brain—ultimately integrating an influence processor (a nanocrystal), with the aim of turning these women into an elite unit capable of infiltrating enemy countries, while keeping them human and capable of thought.

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Because an agent who thinks and reasons is superior to the others… That is the decisive difference—the one that would relegate cyborg research to mere gains and losses. Apart from the team in place, the President of the United States, and the investors, this research—still experimental for now—must remain ultra-secret. The “Horizon of Mind” project is funded through concealed channels by the five leading international banking families.

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“To see beyond the horizon of our brain, and uncover the secrets of creation.”

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To move beyond human trauma—allowing certain physiological and psychochemical mutations—to discover, within these cerebral fractures, unexplored sources of the mind. Among them: a terra incognita known as the limbic system, or “primary brain,” responsible for emotions. The professors intend to stimulate it to trigger the secretion of various hormones—substances that, at high doses, would transform an individual’s behavior, strength, and perception of their environment.

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Thus begins the genesis of the world of “human creatures”—or Transhuman beings.