Portraits from Future Pasts: Echo No.3 : Dr. Alphonse Lorrick

Dr. Alphonse Lorrick was once a leading theorist in temporal recursion and artificial memory compression. He believed consciousness could be improved by folding time inward, like paper in a pocket.

The procedure worked. Then it didn’t. Then it worked again.

Eventually, he began seeing with eyes that weren’t his and thinking thoughts that had never been recorded. No one could tell which version of him authored the final theory. Some say none of them did.

When questioned, he would reply only with a smile and the phrase “The self is a symptom.”