[It takes Jack a second, just as long as it takes for him to remember where he glanced that name, and realize whose notes it was on, and what those notes were about, and which wall he found them on.
Jack's knowledge about conditioning is simultaneously faint and far too intimate - if you've made a machine out of a man, the easiest way of keeping the controls out of his hands is by keeping him from knowing they exist at all. But he's aware now, and unchained from them, and no amount of distance will be enough to make him forget what it felt like to respond unconsciously to a simple phrase.]
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Jack's knowledge about conditioning is simultaneously faint and far too intimate - if you've made a machine out of a man, the easiest way of keeping the controls out of his hands is by keeping him from knowing they exist at all. But he's aware now, and unchained from them, and no amount of distance will be enough to make him forget what it felt like to respond unconsciously to a simple phrase.]
Jesus christ, you too?