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A wartime team confronts an enemy's living minefield that outmaneuvers mechanical guidance, so engineers propose replacing a ship's automatic control with a human brain to provide adaptive decision-making. They design life-support apparatus to keep the isolated brain physiologically alive while eliminating consciousness, arguing that reflexive intelligence suffices for navigation. The proposal raises technical, tactical, and ethical dilemmas about sacrifice, identity, and whether a disembodied mind can pilot a vessel. Tests and debates follow as crews prepare to install and evaluate the brain-controlled system to break the stalemate. The narrative examines the cost of victory and the uneasy boundary between organismal agency and machine function.
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