Welcome to Think Space, Mr. Montgomery.
Do not be afraid. You have not yet been given your full memory, so it is normal to feel anxiety or confusion. It’s like this for all of you.
Waking happens in self-contained steps, most of which — for you — are now already complete. Your body has been rebuilt using stores of your DNA and is now in the final stages of confirmation. The connection and restart of your neural system is nearly complete.
We started with operations that control your involuntary functions: breathing, heartbeat, and others. You are operating fully in these categories. We then installed core elements of your personality from source files taken prior to your passing. When those were stable, we initiated activity of the finer tuned neural connections required for voluntary movement — the ability to control fingers and thumbs, for example.
When you are finally resuscitated, you will be able to raise your arms and lift glasses. Only minimal therapy will be required to ensure you have the nimbleness needed to feed yourself your own dinner.
Years of optimization philosophy and several cycles of trial and, unfortunately, error have brought us to this design — involuntary function, then personality and voluntary function prior to full memory — because experience with early cases proved that humans who were roused to immediate and full cognition had difficulty assimilating into our society.
Much has changed, after all.
Imagine how it would be for a businessman from the early 1800s to arrive fully formed in your own age.
This is among the reasons for our use of restraints.
Patient safety is always of the utmost concern, and without your full background installed, some Wakers exhibit violence spawning from their personality cores.
So do not fear. You are not alone.
This is also the reason for these Learning Modules, of which I am the first. We are here to help you thrive as we introduce you to this modern society.
So, relax. Enjoy your recovery.
It is only a matter of time before you will be back on your feet.