From:	Peter Coxon <coxoff@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: 2000 leagues v1.1
Date:	Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:09:50 UT

>[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..
bad argument maybe
>> 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.)
I am not sure wether I believe it but here is another argument, Have you ever
used stilts? Well they are different to normal walking but they still have
saspects of normal wlaking, isn't all the bioware just like sight enhacnement,
they would take getting used to but they aren't that different to normal
sight....
>> 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?]
don't know about the evil smile but thanx for spelling Asbestos, i couldn't
remeber how to spell it, hence fireproof rather than asbestos.
>Zim (I guess I'm the 'other one'?)
well if you where the other one you would be me, me saying that i am not the
other is me saying that I am not you, get it? there fore you could quite
happily say that you are not the other one. :)
Tim (not the other one)