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From: Timothy P Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 2000 leagues v1.1
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 16:35:03 -0800
[snip, it was a mess anyway]

> Okay then it seems that bioware can only realy include passive systems then,
> but (this might sound a biut lame but anywho) Currently people who loose legs,
> arms, etc get prothetic replacments, and they have to re learn how to wlak
> with out much control in their limbs, [...]

If your getting toward justifying the (re)learning of senses, just remember that the
brain already has the wetware to process information about the movement of
(conventional) limbs. No reworking neccessary, just a re-connection.

as for this..

> and another thing there is currently
> this thing going round is this biofeedback thingies we people learn to kill of
> things like aids by having a counter thing showing how well they do when the
> cells start to die they have worked out the technique and then they just learn
> how to redo it, apparently this guy in america cured himself of aid using
> this technique (ooh that going to be flamed isn't it! :) ) I can't quote my
> source as I can't rember what it was from (horizon possibly, uk thing), any
> way it took this guy about 6 months to work out how to do it and other 6 to
> cure himeself. and by my reackoning with all the advanced tech in 2057 it
> should be to hard to repeat the process, it would still take a while, but
> shorter time

I have no comment...(instinct is to toss that into the "yeah, whatever, believe that
when I see it" catagory, but you never know.)

> Tim (not the other one)
> Ps. I am wearing fire proof boxers and am braced for a flaming!

Hey, wrap yourself up in an asbestos blanket, just use the bio-feedback to rid your
lungs of the fibers!! :) [sorry, couldn't resist...and how do you do an evil smile?]

Zim (I guess I'm the 'other one'?)

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