The Mental Seal

Item from The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

Bill Hines's neural imprinter, marketed as a confidence-builder for the Space Force — secretly substituted by Keiko Yamasuki to imprint defeatism at the bedrock level.

Also known as: the Imprinter, the Confidence Apparatus

What They Know

• Imprints arbitrary propositions as bedrock beliefs at the neural-pathway level.
• There is no external test that distinguishes an Imprinted person from an unmodified one.
• Officially banned by the Planetary Defense Council after the Yamasuki revelation; informally, files have been quietly destroyed.

Connections

• created_by — bill_hines
• created_by — keiko_yamasuki

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