abstract:Mindkiller is a 1982 novel by science fiction writer Spider Robinson. The novel, set in the late 1980s (re-edited later to begin in 2006), explores the social implications of technologies to manipulate the brain, beginning with wireheading, the use of electrical current to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain in order to achieve a narcotic high.
"There is nothing about this case that is rational or makes any sense, " attorney Bryan Konoski told jurors in a closing argument in a trial that centers on a schizophrenic killer's state of mind.