Uncle Geoff takes a look back at the curious case of Joe 90. These days if you took a school kid and brainwashed them with advanced equipment into becoming an assassin or super-spy, the least you could expect is a visit from social services... but what do we get? The Dollhouse and Chuck borrowing the concept!

Graph a brain through an electroencephalography and there is a display of a variety of wave-lengths which could be deemed as a brain pattern. What the EEG doesn't reveal is that such frequencies only represent brain activity not actual function. You cannot say any particular signal represents the use of memories or experience. Indeed, such signals would be the same for any individual and certainly could not be used to identify anyone by.



Making a recording of these patterns and imposing them into another brain is therefore unlikely to impart either the personality or experiences of another individual largely because such information is stored chemically in protein and Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) in the brain.

This then brings the problem of how does Professor Ian McClaine's prototype device, the Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer (also known as the BIG RAT), transfer copies of selected brain patterns from one individual into another.

McClaine might be many things but he isn't a biologist. His background is in electronics, computers and engineering. As such, the discovery that led to the creation of the BIG RAT must stem from something associated with these fields and something he saw in human brain patterns that could be initiated in a five minute transfer. If it was possible to transfer facets of a person's personality it would take a much longer time.

Much of the BIG RAT's operation is very much on the World Intelligence Network top secret classified files with elaborate misinformation as to how it is achieved. However, there is sufficient evidence to give an explanation that appears to fit the available facts and not necessarily resort to String Theory. Indeed, on analysis, the results ignored the most obvious solution.

McClaine's selection of brain patterns are all of live people. This is a very crucial point as there is no evidence of him keeping or using a brain pattern recording after anyone has died although it is not crucial that they are awake or comatose. The second crucial evidence is the pair of electrodes, usually concealed in a pair a spectacles worn by the recipient. There is nothing elaborate about them, not even a power source. All they are there for is to complete the circuit.

Joseph McClaine, the main test subject of these brain pattern transfers, describes the experience as having the information on tap without having to think about it. In many respects, that is how we use our own experiences in real life for anything other than cognitive thought. You don't think what keys to touch when playing the piano, your experience will automatically have you selecting the right ones. Knowledge and experience work in much the same way.

What we are dealing with here is more to do with the actions of synchronisation and a sharing of experiences with a living donor host where distance is not a limitation. The process of copying and transferring of brain patterns via the BIG RAT is to produce an identical brain pattern in the recipient. With the electrodes completing the circuit, the recipient is literally placed in tune with the donor and they share experiences or expertise in particular subjects. The technique is effective enough to enable multiple transfers to co-exist at the same time by virtue of only transferring connection to certain memory areas.

A shared dream experience of a car race where both McClaines had similar dreams tends to support this argument. There was no clear indication as to which individual initiated or re-enforced the dream. McClaine was surprised at the depth the brain pattern is instilled in the recipient's brain. As dreams are unconscious non-cognitive this should hardly have been surprising. Normally, the recipient would not wear his glasses when asleep so would avoid having any shared dream experiences.

The consequence of this was sharing James Grant, the unknowing test pilot donor's recent fear of landing. Paradoxically, by having McClaine getting him to overcome his phobia enabled agent Joe 90 to land the aeroplane successfully. Brain pattern transfer doesn't make McClaine telepathic to his donor or vice versa and his step-father limits the transfer to selected memories due to his age and preventing access to too much 'adult' information. Whether unlimited access change that situation has never been attempted, even when using adult subjects.

The first test of the BIG RAT was also a demonstration to his friend Samuel Loover, second-in-command of the World Intelligence Network, London, regarding increasing security and protection of the device. McClaine transferred a brain pattern into his nine year-old step-son, Joseph, as his key demonstration. Loover saw other possibilities and after conferring with his commander, Shane Weston, they convinced McClaine that his step-son would make the perfect cover as an intelligence officer for special assignments.

Whether the same boy continually appearing at crucial places would be believed as more than coincidence is hard to say but it would be most unlikely people would think him a savant expert in so many different fields. Without the glasses containing the electrodes, the young McClaine was still an ordinary nine year-old boy. After assignment, it only required another sitting in the BIG RAT to wipe he brain pattern signal from McClaine's brain with no ill effects.

It should also be noted that McClaine objected to the W.I.N. use of his step-son in this manner although it was Joseph himself who decided he would like to do it. No doubt W.I.N. provided easy access to obtain various brain patterns covertly, funding and security. The latter was carried out by restricting file access to Weston, Loover and the McClaines.

These assignments continued for a few years until the young McClaine was in his teens and his effectiveness was deemed at risk, not to mention as before as a child continually appearing in trouble spots became a conflicting security issue.

(c) GF Willmetts 2009

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