Uplink

What if each brain were made the same

And interfaced to each?

We’d share our thoughts and memories

Our ideas and our dreams

We’d also share delusions

And confusion, and disease

And share each hellish nightmare

As a virus in the breach

And what if we could uplink

To the Omniscient mind

Would neurons overload

And crash synaptics as designed?

And what of our uniqueness

And our individual choice?

Would soul be self-determined?

Would the novel find a voice?

These questions I considered long

And then the virgin mind

The freshness of beginnings

And the purpose of this blind

For each brain is self-programmed

To a great extent we find

As Providence decreed

The soul could modify design