Brain Transplant

In 2054, I held a living human brain in my gloved hands-outside the body-and put it into a new one.
It woke up.
It spoke.
And it remembered everything.

The world stopped.

No coma.
No rejection.
No loss of self.

Just... a miracle. A brain transplant with 100% success.

We shattered the boundary between life and death-and now, nothing is the same.

I wasn't supposed to lead the operation. The ethics board was still debating if a human soul could even survive relocation. But when my patient-a thirty-six-year-old aerospace engineer named Mara Voss-was declared neurologically intact but somatically dying, I invoked Protocol Zero and deployed my patented 20-phase transplant framework.

I combined:
- Cryogenic brain preservation and revival
- Robotic direct brain reimplantation
- Spinal cord reattachment and glymphatic microvascular fusion
- AI-assisted neurofeedback recalibration and psychological reintegration
- Synthetic nervous system integration with a bionic exobody

All in one continuous eighteen-hour operation.

When Mara opened her eyes, she was still herself-mind, memories, identity, dreams-inside a new body engineered from stem cells and printed bone.

That was just the beginning.

Others came: tech billionaires, presidents, people frozen for decades waiting for their second chance. Each time, I dove deeper into what it means to transplant not just a brain, but a life.

But now something is changing.

One patient's memories don't match the body's past.
Another shows skills they never had-before transplant.
And one... claims to remember being me.

This isn't just a medical revolution.

It's a redefinition of identity, memory, and consciousness itself.

I saved them.

But something came through with them.

And now I'm not sure where the brain ends-
and the soul begins.