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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