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177natural environment once each of them had been fitted with microsensors. They were fitted separately. Each participant was assigned a representative who could be trusted in such intimate moments as micro devices were fitted to parts of the body which were extremely private areas. Probes of the most refined creation were surgically placed into the brain not just into other body organs.Albert was Rachel%u2019s contact and guide. She was perhaps the prettiest of the two young women, aged nineteen, although Stephanie was a close second. Albert was a highly revered theoretical quantum scientist aged forty-two.%u201cHow are you feeling today?%u201d Albert asked Rachel. %u201cWell, I%u2019m pleased to see the first payment have gone into my bank account. It%u2019s an amount so high,%u201d she replied. %u201cI feel like I just won the lottery. The one payment will see me right the way through Uni. Which makes me think Albi, How much are you on?%u201d%u201cMy salary?%u201d%u201cYes.%u201d She told him.%u201cLet me just say that in the next five years I will have earned about half of your first payment,%u201d he replied. %u201cBut Rachel, you are about to meet the others, and you have been analysed to be a perfect match for one of them and a good enough match for the other young man.%u201d%u201cI understand. Which one is the perfect match?%u201d She asked.%u201cI can%u2019t say. It%u2019s about the whole thing from beginning to the moment when you...%u201d%u201cFuck?%u201d She finished his faltering sentence.%u201cYes. Exactly. How do you feel about that. You need to do have sex to orgasm for our research, even if you don%u2019t... um... fancy the 177The Search For Consciousness