Cole, V. Recording

ANALYZING…
FILE TYPE: Suspended Signal
PERIOD: //%'ERROR#'td
SPEAKERS: Cole, V. [ID: VCOL]
TOPIC: Self
SUMMARY: A recording of Dr. Val Cole made during an Anomaly investigation. The file is heavily corrupted, and dating results are incomprehensible.
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[VCOL]: Begin recording. Dr. Val Cole, lead experimental physicist, Anomaly expedition.

[VCOL]: Observation: My suit biomonitor reads "deceased." Which, I'm not… Unless "now" is before "deceased" happened. Since I'm talking, it can't be "after." God, I hope it's not "during."

[VCOL]: Start from first principles. What's real? Hands. I have hands. Hands in gloves… coated with… something…

[VCOL]: No, no, that's not… Let's try something else.

[VCOL]: Me. I'm here. An entity is thinking and making sounds. Call the entity "me." Cogito ergo sum, et cetera. Me is… a reasonable approximation of Cole.

[VCOL]: Dr. Val Cole. Lead experimental physicist, Anomaly expedition.

[VCOL]: Okay. Next thing: a device is recording sounds. The entity's sounds—my sounds.

[VCOL]: Interface seems disordered but that's par for the course in here, isn't it?

[VCOL]: Call the device, uh, needs a name. NuCaloric product number… no, no, a person's name. Because humans talk to other people.

[VCOL]: Call it "Fermi." Some solidarity during this paradox. Hm, sense of humor still intact.

[VCOL]: So far there is me, there is Fermi, there is the Anomaly, and my biomonitor reads…

[VCOL]: "Indeterminate"?

[VCOL]: Goddammit.

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