In this chapter, the reader is introduced to a new character, who is introduced as "H" from the previous chapter's title sequence. He is a young man who has just returned from a trip to the Galapagos Islands, where he has spent a great deal of time with his family and friends. He has a dream about the future, which he describes as a "dream of the future" . He does not know what the dream is about, but he does know that it is not a dream of death, but of understanding the world. He also knows that the world is too vast for him, and that he will never be able to fully understand it. He begins to fear death, and he begins to search for a way to understand the world in its entirety. He finds a chair that will answer any question he might ask. The chair is described as "a pretty fancy chair" , and the narrator says that the rest of the team could have continued the research, even if they did not see all of the possible applications for it. They were wrong about the potential of the technology, and they should not have allowed it to distract them from the original goal. They should have continued their research on their own, even in an era when cars were not even a concept. They would still have to learn how to realize the technology. The narrator agrees with the former, that the specimens they collected were useful in the military, and tend to evolve after kauplin tossed them aside. He remembers the story of Hamilton's "collective unconciousness," which was a part of the "wisdom of humankind." He says that according to his theory, humans were interested in treating groups as individuals. He thinks that this is a similar concept to "manipulation," which is more strongly directed at anger than at violence. He believes that it would be impossible for them to physically examine the brains of their subjects to determine their path. They wanted to control their actions by thought, rather than emotion or obligation. If a subject were arrested for murder, they would be unable to continue controlling his actions through thought. They chose a setting in which "the average person" could not be influenced by the violence around him, so he could not continue to control his actions. He concludes that it was possible to manipulate the human mind using surgery.