One original sci-fi story per day for all of 2023 | Created by screenwriter Timothy Michael Cooper, illustrated using A.I.

Transference

Transference

So how does your species transfer wisdom, if you can’t simply insert your knowledge tentacle into someone else’s intracranial brainsocket, like us? How do you ever accrue knowledge as a species? How do you guarantee that at the end of your life, everything you ever learned doesn’t die with you? You’re telling me each human must learn everything starting from scratch—instead of receiving their Transference at age 5, like the rest of us? I mean, how does your species ever advance? Frankly, I don’t even understand how you got intelligent enough to travel to our planet. Must’ve taken a miracle.