"Digital Immortality" (Creepypasta)

in the first quarter of 2012 a scientist named Alexander Stewart Kiev discovered a technological means to immortality that is to say doctor came off fulfilled one of the longest-running pursuits of the human race the desire to defeat death though many of his notes remain in the possession of the Russian security forces and many more were wiped from his hard drives are burned and the oil drums behind his lonely research station enough remains to piece together a little of this man's life and the thought process which led to what some consider the finest and most unknown scientific achievement of this generation and what others claim to be the biggest abomination that the thinking world has inflicted upon man since the atom bomb he called his magnum opus project Velox we know for example that CAI mobs obsession with immortality may have begun at a young age when he was 5 years old his parents were involved in a terrible road accident near the border of the autonomous Jewish Oblast the collision left both comatose a condition which surviving medical notes assumed would result in their deaths within a month instead both lingered on the edge of life for over 10 years during this period they were relocated to a specialist facility in Saint Petersburg and the young Jewish demi orphan Alexander trailed in their wake less than a year after their arrival however both perished during a power-cut and time off was left utterly alone despite the trauma of his young life perhaps even enhanced by it Alexander excelled in his schooling at the age of just 16 he was offered a place at Moscow State University where he read neuroscience and robotics by the second year however he had dropped out of both and was taking classes in philosophy he had no friends he was a distant and aloof boy in a sea of young men and women but former classmates know that he obsessed over Descartes a philosopher who famously declared human consciousness who we really are to be entirely separate to physical existence one roommate recalls walking in on KY moth frantically tearing pages from philosophy textbooks and pasting them to the walls and ceiling above his bed still others recall how he would build strange contraptions out of dubiously acquired computer parts and secondhand hospital equipment which would emit a dull humming drone even at night noise complaints eventually resulted in time off being evicted from his dorm room and his equipment confiscated distraught he dropped out of university altogether and disappeared from official records for almost 25 years appearing occasionally unemployment wrote us for the kitchens of backwoods bars or the maintenance crews at hospitals he spoke to few people and during this time he bounced around the northernmost territories of western Russia he bought cigarettes with his parents as savings until they finally ran out in 2004 he applied for library cards in dozens of municipalities most of which were revoked when he failed to return the texts he borrowed books and magazines on all aspects of science medicine and computing according to scholarly estimates the information on the human brain can be measured in data storage terms weighing in at around 2,500 terabytes in size slightly more according to Chi moves estimate Khaimah read studies regarding the digitization of the human mind with more than a casual interest he wrote numerous articles for the New Scientist and too for Time magazine between 2001 and 2009 postulating that not only was the transfer of a human consciousness from a body to an electronic brain within the bounds of contemporary science but that it was even possible to create an artificial afterlife where these consciousnesses could be together of course I'm paraphrasing here but Kai mauve was adamant in his writings that what he referred to as the preservation of a human mind postmortem was entirely feasible and then shortly before the end of 2011 a curious advertisement began to circulate the local papers of st. Petersburg and other northerly towns and cities it read Umair HEA I did is I busines dry boots ax Val Endora which roughly translates to are you dying do you want to live forever volunteers wanted this was chyme offs first attempt to reach out to the world since his Moscow University days and he signed that dr. Heim of despite having never graduated witness accounts hint at shady meetings in rented offices with a terribly thin bearded man in a faded suit and scuffed shoes he claimed to be working on a great experiment with funding from Moscow University the university has denied any kind of financial involvement with its former student but it is undeniable that Chi moth had somehow come into a great deal of money the man who had resorted to stealing journals from libraries went on to purchase a ruined weather station in the Ural Mountains which he renovated and outfitted with medical equipment he is thought to have considered more than 200 terminally ill individuals that expressed interest in his ad but approached only the most vulnerable of the group those desperately afraid of their imminent death those without families those that would not be missed Kiev took 30 of them to his isolated laboratory where he presided over their final days they weren't exactly prisoners for there were no guards no restraints but the harsh weather outside and the worsening conditions of the patients kept most confined to their beds had they been capable of wandering the halls of the facility they may have been awed by what lay beneath their feet a maze of subterranean passageways crawl spaces and rooms built in a nonsensical yet oddly specific spiral down into the earth and furnished with concrete all of it miles of tunnel lined with humming computer systems a kind of data storage mega vault much of the equipment was outdated by the time he began his work but rather than replace the enormous banks of machines Kiev simply said about retrofitting with more modern equipment into the existing system even now years after its discovery specialists working day and night are only just beginning to unpick the functions and purpose of the bizarre machine that slumbers beneath time-off slab it is thought that time off laced patience food with sedatives keeping them agreeable and slowly numbing their bodies over the weeks as he wired their withering frames into a dizzying array of machines some of his surviving notes leaked to the public by a sympathetic Russian intelligence worker since put on indefinite unpaid leave suggests that the subjects reported oddly vivid dreams mostly sensations of floating or flying but with all the lucidity of being wide awake he specifically records they're describing the feeling as frightening or uncomfortable when we sleep the way we use our brain changes but Khaimah reported in his journal that the subjects brains acted as though they were still awake reacting lucidly to the odd sensations of the dreamworld created by the electrical stimulus from chi mouths machine in layman's terms Kamath had separated the dreaming cancer patients from their bodies and pulled them into a digital environment created by his lovingly named Lazarus Engine his journal excitedly quotes his ever beloved philosopher Descartes I think therefore I am and scrawled beneath it all we are is a series of electrical impulses on the mind and now we can be forever free on New Year's Eve 2011 each of khai moths patients fell into a coma and flatlined chi mobs journal entry that day simply reads and now I shall go to work electrical activity mirroring that of a human being resting after physical exertion was registering on the Lazarus engine they lived on in the digital afterlife that he had created in all three patients died prematurely due to the failure of the antiquated life support machines the sheet wrapped bodies were eventually found buried in the forest behind the facility with graves carefully marked Chi moth had placed a wreath on each ironically it was one of these three who proved his undoing petra fuel drove a 50 year old divorcee from the suburbs of moscow like the others had no friends or family she did however having irate ex-husband whom when she failed to pay her alimony endeavored to track her down the police were notified when the private detective he'd hired found fresh graves in the woods Kiev was arrested but initially released on bail eventually the police returned and stormed the facility Khai mobs initial protests that he had to care for his patients were dismissed but when detectives called in experts to read through the documents and examine the machinery below the floorboards of the facility he was brought before his machines and asked to prove that the human consciousness stored within were aware he did this by applying an electrical stimulus and pointing out the brain pattern like responses the scientists presiding over the demonstration responded with wonder and dismay but Kai mauve simply flashed a bemused smile as though all he had done were as natural as falling asleep Russian authorities wanted to turn off the Lazarus engine but an international tribunal concluded that it could be murder to do so and forbade Russia from any kind of contact with the Lazarus engine until a better understanding had been gained the machines were analyzed but nobody could make any sense of them the notes were scrutinized but the sheer volume combined with the use of a cipher to keep them private prevented anyone from being able to understand their contents meanwhile CAI mob was interrogated when asked what he had hoped to accomplish he rambled about a future in which the digital world intersected with the physical one and where the dead soared on SolarWinds of information across a kind of super internet firmament when asked where he'd gotten his money from Kiev became incredibly nervous alternating between private savings theft and an anonymous donor when asked why if he was trying to advance the scientific community he had burned his notes Kiev fell silent and stared at his shoes authorities growing increasingly concerned as to the well-being of Kiev subjects asked him how to communicate with them CAI mob visibly confused stated that there was no way to speak with his immortal children they simply were with the situation growing desperate and leaks to the press surfacing everyday the International investigatory body offered KY mauve a full pardon for his crimes if he could develop a way for an outsider to contact the bodyless humans the offer sparked outrage among some of the more passionate members of the delegation and indeed those among the public who heard about it but it delighted chyme off under the supervision of a delegation of scientists and with a detachment of UN peacekeepers permanently posted at the doors he returned to his mountain lair and busied himself with his ever rumbling machines within one week a time period so absurdly short that some postulate that he had prepared the technology ahead of time anticipating the pardon offer he announced that he had completed his assignment a surgical table bristling with monitors slots for morphine drips and a helmet filled with electrodes and other less appealing protrusions all of it the faded cream color of old Tec a young Montenegrin dr. Luka Lhasa vaq offered to test it the assembled staff watched with mild concern as Khaimah restrained the young volunteer ran the IV into his body and fitted the helmet to his head he fell swiftly into a deep all-consuming sleep occasionally his pockmarked face would twitch and at one point he suffered a light nosebleed which time off stamped on the whole the ordeal seemed mundane indeed khaimah have appeared impatient tapping upon the vitals monitor scribbling notes and tutting and observers an hour ticked by then - and then Laz avec awoke his pupils which had been huge when he opened his eyes took in a naturally long time to narrow beneath the harsh electric lights and he opened and closed his jaw repeatedly tears welled in his eyes and a stream of saliva began to trickle from his mouth what happened asked someone did you see the others Lhasa Vic's body was wracked with sobs as soon as his arms were freed he curled into the fetal position and cried into his hands there screaming he said we were all blind and we were all screaming and there was something something in the dark Oh God the screaming the others pressed in jabbering away with questions Vlasic said no more would not or could not none could decide he just cried until he was taken away chi mobs face was blank throughout Las Vegas testimony afterwards he smoked outside and stared intently at the sky before returning to his sinister machines luke'll azov ik was put on an intensive counseling program despite his vivid and rather dramatic exclamations he claimed to have no memory of what he had glimpsed inside the Lazarus engine in the way that a person's nightmares fade from their mind once they reenter the waking world he made good progress or rather he appeared to in early 2012 police responding to noise complaints from neighbors at Lazo Vic's Bahrain apartment building discovered his boyfriend dead from a massive head trauma losev ik was found in the building's basement curled into the fetal position a blow to the front of his head had left him in a coma a condition in which he remains to this very day in the immediate aftermath of the Lucca incident Khaimah became increasingly isolated when his work first became known to the world public response had been surprisingly sympathetic here was an eccentric old man with a burning desire to further mankind and being punished by that most fashionably despised demon of society bureaucracy interviews had been negotiated and papers commissioned from him but now intentional or not a black shadow hung over the whole affair expose is ran drawing parallels between Khaimah and the Japanese eugenicist sub or on january 9th russian police brutally dispersed a crowd of human rights protesters outside the gates of the compound chyme of observed the protests dispassionately from an upstairs window a few minutes later he was seen shuffling out through a rear door carrying with him an armful of paper folders he struck a fire inside an old oil drum and dropped the files inside this process was repeated half-a-dozen times in an hour he had destroyed countless notes including patient profiles of which he made no electronic duplicates moments later United Nations observers noted that he had received a call on his cell phone the conversation lasted approximately eight minutes and saw time off crying and pleading with the unknown caller in hushed tones eventually he emerged from his office his eyes red wearing a suit and no coat he walked out through the main gates of the compound and into the forest when he failed to return a full-scale search was mounted to no avail he remains on numerous missing persons registers as I type up this report it is late 2014 my neighbors clear snow from their window sills as though Moscow's old district is blinking last night's white dust from its eyelashes the war in the Middle East is escalating and the world's media has turned its attention to that time off has been forgotten the United Nations squabble over what to do with the Lazarus engine and on the rare occasion that they agree on something Putin shoots down the idea and claims the Lazarus engine as his own jurisdiction now and forevermore 27 Souls hang in digital purgatory you in that unknown darkness they're screaming

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Keywords: Digital Immortality Creepypasta, Kingspook, experiment pasta

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Length: 27min 53sec (1673 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 03 2015