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+Author: Albert R. Teichner
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+ MAN
+ MADE
+
+ By
+ ALBERT R. TEICHNER
+
+
+ _A story that comes to grips with an age-old
+ question--what is soul? and where?--and
+ postulates an age-new answer._
+
+
+If I listed every trouble I've accumulated in a mere two hundred odd
+years you might be inclined to laugh. When a tale of woe piles up too
+many details it looks ridiculous, unreal. So here, at the outset, I want
+to say my life has not been a tragic one--whose life is in this day of
+advanced techniques and universal good will?--but that, on the contrary,
+I have enjoyed this Earth and Solar System and all the abundant
+interests that it has offered me. If, lying here beneath these great
+lights, I could only be as sure of joy in the future....
+
+My name is Treb Hawley. As far back as I can remember in my childhood, I
+was always interested in astronautics. From the age of ten I specialized
+in that subject, never for a moment regretting the choice. When I was
+still a child of twenty-four I took part in the Ninth Jupiter Expedition
+and after that there were many more. I had a precocious marriage at
+thirty and my boys, Robert and Neil, were born within a few years after
+Marla and I wed. It was fortunate that I fought for government
+permission that early; after the accident, despite my high rating, I
+would have been denied the rare privilege of parenthood.
+
+That accident, the first one, took place when I was fifty. On Planet 12
+of the Centauri System I was attacked by a six-limbed primate and was
+badly mangled on the left side before breaking loose to destroy it.
+Surgical Corps operated within an hour. Although they did an excellent
+prosthetic job after removing my left leg and arm, the substituted limbs
+had their limitations. While they permitted me to do all my jobs,
+phantom pain was a constant problem. There were new methods of
+prosthesis to eliminate this weird effect but these were only available
+back on the home planets.
+
+I had to wait one year for this release. Meanwhile I had plenty of time
+to contemplate my mysterious affliction; the mystery of it was so great
+that I had little chance to notice how painful it actually was. There is
+enough strangeness in feeling with absolute certainty that a limb exists
+where actually there is nothing, but the strangeness is compounded when
+you look down and discover that not only is the leg gone but that
+another, mechanical one has taken its place. Dr. Erics, who had
+performed the operation, said this difficulty would ultimately prove a
+blessing but I often had my doubts.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He was right. Upon my return to Earth, the serious operations took
+place, those giving me plastic limbs that would become _living_ parts of
+my organic structure. The same outward push of the brain and nervous
+system that had created phantom pain now made what was artificial seem
+real. Not only did my own blood course through the protoplastic but I
+could feel it doing so. The adjustment took less than a week and it was
+a complete one.
+
+Fortunately the time was already past when protoplast patients were
+looked upon as something mildly freakish and to be pitied. Artificial
+noses, ears and limbs were becoming quite common. Whether there was some
+justification for the earlier reaction of pity, however, still remains
+to be seen.
+
+My career resumed and I was accepted for the next Centauri Expedition
+without any questions being asked. As a matter of fact, Planning Center
+preferred people in my condition; protoplast limbs were more durable
+than the real--no, let us say the original--thing.
+
+At home and at the beach no one bothered to notice my reconstructed arm
+and leg. They looked too natural for the idea to occur to people who did
+not know me. And Marla treated the whole thing like a big joke. "You're
+better than new," she used to tell me and the kids wanted to know when
+they could have second matter limbs of their own.
+
+Life was good to me. The one-year periods away from home passed quickly
+and the five-year layoffs on Earth permitted me to devote myself to my
+hobbies, music and mathematics, without taking any time away from my
+family. Eventually, of course, my condition became an extremely common
+one. Who is there today among my readers who has all the parts with
+which he was born? If any such person past the childhood sixty years
+did, _he_ would be the freak.
+
+Then at ninety new difficulties arose. A new Centaurian subvirus
+attacked my chest marrow. As is still true in this infection, the virus
+proved to be ineradicable. My ribs weren't, though, and a protoplastic
+casing, exactly like the thoracic cavity, was substituted. It was
+discovered that the infection had spread to my right radius and ulna so
+here too a simple substitution was made. Of course, such a radical
+infection meant my circulatory system was contaminated and synthetically
+created living hemoplast was pumped in as soon as all the blood was
+removed.
+
+This _did_ attract attention. At the time the procedure was still new
+and some medical people warned it would not take. They were right only
+to this extent: the old cardioarterial organs occasionally hunted into
+defective feedback that required systole-diastole adjustments.
+Protoplastic circulatory substitutes corrected the deficiency and, just
+to avoid the slight possibility of further complications, the venous
+system was also replaced. Since the changeover there hasn't been the
+least trouble in that sector.
+
+By then Marla had a perfect artificial ear and both of my sons had lost
+their congenitally diseased livers. There was nothing extraordinary
+about our family; only in my case were replacements somewhat above the
+world average.
+
+I am proud to say that I was among the first thousand who made the
+pioneer voyage on hyperdrive to the star group beyond Centaurus. We
+returned in triumph with our fantastic but true tales of the organic
+planet Vita and the contemplative humanoids of Nirva who will
+consciousness into subjectively grasping the life and beauty of
+subatomic space. The knowledge we brought back assured that the fatal
+disease of ennui could never again attack man though they lived to Aleph
+Null.
+
+On the second voyage Marla, Robert and Neil went with me. This took a
+little political wrangling but it was worth throwing my merit around to
+see them benefit from Nirvan discoveries even before the rest of
+humanity. Planetary Council agreed my services entitled me to this
+special consideration. Truly I could feel among the blessed.
+
+Then I volunteered for the small expeditionary force to the 38th moon
+that the Nirvans themselves refused to visit. They tried to dissuade us
+but, being of a much younger species, we were less plagued by caution
+and went anyway. The mountains of this little moon are up to fifteen
+miles high, causing a state of instability that is chronic. Walking down
+those alabaster valleys was a more awesome experience than any galactic
+vista I have ever encountered. Our aesthetic sense proved stronger than
+common sense alertness and seven of us were buried in a rock slide.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Fortunately the great rocks formed a cavern above us. After two days we
+were rescued. The others had suffered such minor injuries that they were
+repaired before our craft landed on Nirva. I, though, unconscious and
+feverish, was in serious condition from skin abrasions and a comminuted
+cranium. Dr. Erics made the only possible prognosis. My skull had to be
+removed and a completely new protoskin had to be supplied also.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When I came out of coma Marla was standing at my bedside, smiling down
+at me. "Do you feel," she stumbled, "darling, I mean, do you feel the
+way you did?"
+
+I was puzzled. "Sure, I'm Treb Hawley, I'm your husband, and I remember
+an awful fall of rocks but now I feel exactly the way I always have." I
+did not even realize that further substitutions had been made and did
+not believe them when they told me about it.
+
+Now I _was_ an object of curiosity. Upon our return to Earth the
+newsplastics hailed me as one of the most highly reintegrated
+individuals anywhere. In all the teeming domain of man there were only
+seven hundred who had gone through as many substitutions as I had.
+Where, they philosophised in passing, would a man cease to be a man in
+the sequence of substitutions?
+
+Philosophy had never been an important preoccupation of mine. It was the
+only discipline no further ahead in its really essential questions than
+the Greeks of four thousand years ago. Oh certainly, there had been lots
+of technical improvements that were fascinating but these were
+peripheral points; the basic issues could not be experimentally tested
+so they had to remain on the level of accepted or rejected axioms. I
+wasn't about to devote much time to them when the whole fascinating
+field of subatomic mirror numbers was just opening up; certainly not
+because a few sensational journalists were toying with dead-end notions.
+For that matter the newsplastics weren't either and quickly went back to
+the regular mathematical reportage they do so well.
+
+A few decades later, however, I wasn't so cocksure. The old Centaurian
+virus had reappeared in my brain of all places and I started to have a
+peculiar feeling about where the end point in all this reintegrating
+routine would lie. Not that the brain operation was a risk; thousands of
+people had already gone through it and the substitute organisms had made
+no fundamental change in them. It didn't in my case either. But now I
+was more second matter than any man in history.
+
+"It's the old question of Achilles' Ship," Dr. Erics told me.
+
+"Never heard of it," I said.
+
+"It's a parable, Treb, about concretised forms of a continuum in its
+discrete aspects."
+
+"I see the theoretical question but what has Achilles' Ship to do with
+it?"
+
+He furrowed his protoplast brow that looked as youthful as it had a
+century ago. "This ship consisted of several hundred planks, most of
+them forming the hull, some in the form of benches and oars and a
+mainmast. It served its primitive purpose well but eventually sprang a
+leak. Some of the hull planks had to be replaced after which it was as
+good as new. Another year of hard use brought further hull troubles and
+some more planks were removed for new ones. Then the mast collapsed and
+a new one was put in. After that the ship was in such good shape that it
+could outrace most of those just off the ways."
+
+I had an uneasy feeling about where this parable was leading us but my
+mind shied away from the essential point and Erics went relentlessly on.
+"As the years passed more repairs were made--first a new set of oars,
+then some more planks, still newer oars, still more planks. Eventually
+Achilles, an unthinking man of action who still tried to be aware of
+what happened to the instruments of action he needed most, realized that
+not one splinter of the original ship remained. Was this, then, a new
+ship? At first he was inclined to say yes. But this only evoked the
+further question: when had it become the new ship? Was it when the last
+plank was replaced or when half had been? His confidently stated answer
+collapsed. Yet how could he say it was the old ship when everything
+about it was a substitution? The question was too much for him. When he
+came to Athens he turned the problem over to the wise men of that city,
+refusing ever to think about it again."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+My mind was now in turmoil. "What," I demanded, "_what_ did they
+decide?"
+
+Erics frowned. "Nothing. They could not answer the question. Every
+available answer was equally right and proved every other right answer
+wrong. As you know, philosophy does not progress in its essentials. It
+merely continues to clarify what the problems are."
+
+"I prefer to die next time!" I shouted. "I want to be a live human being
+or a dead one, not a machine."
+
+"Maybe you won't be a machine. Nothing exactly like this has happened
+before to a living organic being."
+
+I knew I had to be on my guard. What peculiar scheme was afoot? "You're
+trying to say something's still wrong with me. It isn't true. I feel as
+well as I ever have."
+
+"Your 'feeling' is a dangerous illusion." His face was space-dust grey
+and I realized with horror that he meant all of it. "I had to tell you
+the parable and show the possible alternatives clearly. Treb, you're
+riddled with Centaurian Zed virus. Unless we remove almost all the
+remaining first growth organisms you will be dead within six months."
+
+I didn't care any more whether he meant it or not; the idea was too
+ridiculous. Death is too rare and anachronistic a phenomenon today.
+"You're the one who needs treatment, Doctor. Overwork, too much study,
+one idea on the brain too much."
+
+Resigned, he shrugged his shoulders. "All the first matter should be
+removed except for the spinal chord and the vertebrae. You'd still have
+that."
+
+"Very kind of you," I said, and walked away, determined to have no more
+of his lectures now or in the future.
+
+Marla wanted to know why I seemed so jumpy. "Seems is just the word," I
+snapped. "Never felt better in my life."
+
+"That's just what I mean," she said. "Jumpy."
+
+I let her have the last word but determined to be calmer from then on.
+
+I was. And, as the weeks passed, the mask I put on sank deeper and
+deeper until that was the way I really felt. 'When you can face death
+serenely you will not have to face it.' That is what Sophilus, one of
+our leading philosophers, has said. I was living this truth. My work on
+infinite series went more smoothly and swiftly than any mathematical
+research I had engaged in before and my senses responded to living with
+greater zest than ever.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Five months later, while walking through Hydroponic Park, I felt the
+first awful tremor through my body. It was as if the earth beneath my
+feet were shaking, like that awful afternoon on Nirva's moon. But no
+rocks fell from this sky and other strollers moved across my vision as
+if the world of five minutes ago had not collapsed. The horror was only
+inside me.
+
+I went to another doctor and asked for Stabilizine. "Perhaps you need a
+checkup," he suggested.
+
+That was the last thing I wanted and I said so. He, too, shrugged
+resignedly and made out my prescription for the harmless drug. After
+that the hammer of pain did not strike again but often I could feel it
+brush by me. Each time my self-administered dosage had to be increased.
+
+Eventually my equations stopped tying together in my mind. I would stare
+at the calculation sheets for hours at a time, asking myself why _x_
+should be here or integral operation there. The truth could not be
+avoided: my mind could no longer grasp truth.
+
+I went, in grudging defeat, to Erics. "You have to win," I said and
+described my experiences.
+
+"Some things are inevitable," he nodded solemnly, "and some are not.
+This may solve all your problems."
+
+"Not _all_," I hoped aloud.
+
+Marla went with me to hospital. She realized the danger I was in but put
+the best possible face on it. Her courage and support made all the
+difference and I went into the second matter chamber, ready for whatever
+fate awaited me.
+
+Nothing happened. I came out of the chamber all protoplast except for
+the spinal zone. Yet I was still Treb Hawley. As the coma faded away,
+the last equation faded in, completely meaningful and soon followed by
+all the leads I could handle for the next few years.
+
+Psychophysiology was in an uproar over my success. "Man can now be _all_
+protoplast," some said. Others as vehemently insisted some tiny but
+tangible chromosome-organ link to the past must remain. For my part it
+all sounded very academic; I was well again.
+
+There _was_ one unhappy moment when I applied for the new Centauri
+Expedition. "Too much of a risk," the Consulting Board told me. "Not
+that you aren't in perfect condition but there are unknown, untested
+factors and out in space they might--mind you, we just say might--prove
+disadvantageous." They all looked embarrassed and kept their eyes off
+me, preferring to concentrate on the medals lined up across the table
+that were to be my consolation prize.
+
+I was disconsolate at first and would look longingly up at the stars
+which were now, perhaps forever, beyond my reach. But my sons were going
+out there and, for some inexplicable reason, that gave me great solace.
+Then, too, Earth was still young and beautiful and so was Marla. I still
+had the full capacity to enjoy these blessings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Not for long. When we saw the boys off to Centauri I had a dizzy spell
+and only with the greatest effort hid my distress until the long train
+of ships had risen out of sight. Then I lay down in the Visitors Lounge
+from where I could not be moved for several hours. Great waves of pain
+flashed up and down my spine as if massive voltages were being released
+within me. The rest of my body stood up well to this assault but every
+few seconds I had the eerie sensation that I was back in my old body, a
+ghostly superimposition on the living protoplast, as the spinal chord
+projected its agony outward. Finally the pain subsided, succeeded by a
+blank numbness.
+
+I was carried on gravito-cushions to Erics' office. "It had to be," he
+sighed. "I didn't have the heart to tell you after the last operation.
+The subvirus is attacking the internuncial neurones."
+
+I knew what that meant but was past caring. "We're not immortal--not
+yet," I said. "I'm ready for the end."
+
+"We can still try," he said.
+
+I struggled to laugh but even gave up that little gesture. "Another
+operation? No, it can't make any difference."
+
+"It might. We don't know."
+
+"How could it?"
+
+"Suppose, Treb, just suppose you do come out of it all right. You'd be
+the first man to be completely of second matter!"
+
+"Erics, it can't work. Forget it."
+
+"I won't forget it. You said we're not immortal but, Treb, your survival
+would be another step in that direction. The soul's immortality has to
+be taken on faith now--if it's taken at all. You could be the first
+_scientific_ proof that the developing soul has the momentum to carry
+past the body in which it grows. At the least you would represent a step
+in the direction of soul freed from matter."
+
+I could take no more of such talk. "Go ahead," I said, "do what you
+want. I give my consent."
+
+The last few days have been the most hectic of my life. Dozens of great
+physicians, flown in from every sector of the Solar System, have
+examined me. "I'm leaving my body to science," I told one particularly
+prodding group, "but you're not giving it a chance to die!" It _is_ easy
+for me to die now; when you have truly resigned yourself to death
+nothing in life can disturb you. I have at long last reached that
+completely stoical moment. That is why I have recorded this history with
+as much objectivity as continuing vitality can permit.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The operating theatre was crowded for my final performance and several
+Tri-D video cameras stared down at me. Pupils, lights and lenses, all
+came to a glittering focus on me. I slowly closed my eyes to blot the
+hypnotic horror out.
+
+But when I opened them everything was still there as before. Then Erics'
+head, growing as he inspected my face more closely, covered everything
+else up.
+
+"When are you going to begin?" I demanded.
+
+"We have _finished_," he answered in awe that verged upon reverence.
+"You are the new Adam!"
+
+There was a mounting burst of applause as the viewers learned what I had
+said. My mind was working more clearly than it had in a long time and,
+with all the wisdom of hindsight, I wondered how anyone could have ever
+doubted the outcome. We had known all along that every bit of atomic
+matter in each cell is replaced many times in one lifetime, electron by
+electron, without the cell's overall form disappearing. Now, by equally
+gradual steps, it had happened in the vaster arena of Newtonian living
+matter.
+
+I sat up slowly, looking with renewed wonder on everything from the
+magnetic screw in the light above my head to the nail on the wriggling
+toe of my left foot. I was more than Achilles' Ship. I was a living
+being at whose center lay a still yet turning point that could neither
+be new nor old but only immortal.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Amazing Science Fiction Stories_
+    January 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
+    the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling
+    and typographical errors have been corrected without note.
+
+
+
+
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