NEURAL INTERFACE OF INJURED FELINE:
Argent Log: 10.25.2060
My new assistant and bodyguard, Mrs. Thorne, was patrolling the Glen radioactive exclusion zone and found an injured cat. She brought it back to the lab this afternoon. The cat is a three-year-old female, nine pounds in weight, an American Shorthair or a Black Bombay. It had suffered a shattered right hind leg and massive trauma to the skull which was fractured into three segments, most likely caused by a passing truck on the nearby state road. She was in shock and the right hemisphere of her brain is severely damaged, typical procedure would be to humanely put down the animal.
Mrs. Thorne is quite insistent that I try to save her, she can be quite stubborn.
The injuries to the cat’s leg were no issue, but the brain was beyond the capabilities of normal surgery. I’ve been developing a number of neural experiments that upon examination, might be pressed into service here. One involved brain augmentation that required attaching a variety of specialized nano-chips to the cerebral cortex of the subject. These were developed to provide increased mental processing for a healthy human brain, but in this instance they should take over tasks normally handled by the compromised organic brain.
Argent Log: 10.26.2060
Experiment 679
The cat was anesthetized, and robotic surgery placed the nano-chips. It was then relatively simple to run linear decoding, and reconstruct spatiotemporal inputs from her brain. The analysis of the data received from her healthy brain cells allowed me to develop algorithms that translated the cat’s thoughts into something compatible with human thought patterns.
Argent Log: 10.31.2060
Experiment 679
I have developed a small interface device that will temporarlly allow me to link directly into the mind of the cat, quite chaotic and interesting.
The cat is recovering nicely, made more adjustments to her neural implants, and have effectively boosted her intelligence to that of perhaps a 6-year-old human. She seems very vocal and Mrs. Thorne is now trying to teach her to speak Spanglish. Given the structure of the cat’s vocal apparatus, and the abundance of vowel sounds in Spanish, this language should be easier for her to articulate.
Argent Log: 12.04.2060
Experiment 679
The cat has recovered sufficiently to leave the med-bay and follows me around everywhere. Mrs. Thorne, who has a penchant for naming everything, has dubbed the cat ‘Specter’.