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Dr. Funakogi is one of the heroes of theAfterNet. He built a Simone terminal with fellow researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, but knew no one there would be able to operate it.
“It would take a belief in the technology and a belief that the soul survives. Two things, together. And to explain this to a volunteer, impossible. I had to do it myself.”
Funakogi, whose family included a long line of samurai, committed suicide in order to use the terminal.
“No, I did not commit sepuku. That was not necessary and I would not ask anyone else to be involved in this. They might have tried to stop me. It was a personal decision.”
Funakogi would talk of his wife, who had died two years earlier, but many suspect he was searching for her. Whatever his motives, the outcome was extraordinarily successful, his facility with the Simone terminal rivaling that of Simone herself.
Funakogi has retired from the Tokyo Institute of Technology but serves on a Japanese government commission on the rights of the disembodied.
