"The Breakthrough"

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For fifteen years, Dr. Daniel Mercer has pursued an impossible scientific ambition: separating consciousness from the biological body. When a computational neural model continues functioning after being disconnected from a chimpanzee's brain, Mercer believes he's finally achieved a breakthrough. But his colleague, Dr. Inês Veyra, isn't convinced. Is the activity evidence of consciousness, or merely a sophisticated computer responding to residual signals? As the experiments advance, the line between scientific discovery and personal obsession begins to blur. And sometimes the greatest discoveries come at a terrible price. This complimentary preview contains the first two chapters of The Breakthrough, a dark, thought-provoking speculative science-fiction prequel to The Immortality Paradox series by Kosta & Sheri Stankovich.