I checked the treated tissue cultures I’d left overnight and made careful measurements of all the effects. There were no surprises. The most noticeable effect was on nervous tissue, although the whole integrated metabolism was slightly altered. I spent the greater part of the morning plotting the data and organizing it in order to feed it into the mathematical analogue of functioning brain tissue that we had on the computer. This would give some idea of the likely psychological effects of the drug, although any conclusions drawn would be highly tentative. Even the best simulations still fall a long way short of the real thing. No one’s built a person inside a computer yet, or written a program for accurately predicting what people will do or how they’ll react to even the simplest chemical stimuli in any real detail. But even fake experiments can sometimes tell you things that you need to know. And I wasn’t going to try the stuff out on anyone real until I’d got all the possible data at my fingertips.
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