Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 56 — page 49: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION “What!” ‘Androids are built up synthetically as facsimiles of human beings, aren’t they? They’re not like robots. No, of course they’re not. The chief physica] difference be- tween an android and a human is that an_android’s brain is only a slight advance on a humanoid robot. Isn’t that correct? Well then, sup- pose a human brain could be put into the body of an android. Yes, a transplanta- tion of a brain, man; of course that’s what I mean. I’ve been reading up on androids since—well, since that medical—and so far as I can see such a thing should be possible. Whose brain? Why, minz, of course!” ‘That was how it had started. From then on it had been hard work. The League com- mended him on his selfiess- ness and then got its minions moving without further ado. An android was brought from one of the Outer Planets— where State regulations kept them for fear that artificial | humans and the genuine ar- ticle would not mix—and was smuggled into NU Lundn. Then a Heretic surgeon began to lead a double life, becom- ing, surprisingly enough, an A Class ManUl on certain days of each week, who was employed in the laboratory of a certain neuro-physicist. A positronic brain was con- structed in such a way that facsimiles of the neuro- physicist’s neuronic vibrations would be emitted from it when the time came. The plan was this: on a certain evening the Heretic ““surgeon-ManU!” would per- form the double operation. He would transfer the human brain into the cranium of the android and put the positronic brain into that of the human. By the following morning both operations would be finished. The robot brain - would be keyed to the human x 48 body’s motor nerves to a superficial extent only, but would activate vocal chords and facial contractions, etc. In the early hours of the following morning the “ManUl’” would carry the robot-brained human from the laboratory to the office, comiclooks.corn