From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	Re: How the hell does a deck work?
Date:	Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:38:19 -0800 (PST)

According to Evan Hughes:
>
> In regards to my last post: a ghostline (shamelessly stolen from
> Ghost in the Shell) is what a decker's jack would interact with. The
> ghostline would be the decker's personality. When it loses cohesion, all
> those other little parts of the decker's brain start showing through
> (sub-conscious, id, ego, etc, depending on your psychological view of the
> brain).

Say what? The decker has a piece of electronics at his house that plugs
into his datajack and his net connection. This box is a fancy rendering
engine that translates the Matrix traffic into sensory signals of the format
the datajack uses, and vice versa. No need for psychobabble about parts of
the brain, or even parts of the soul. The Matrix is merely a Wide-Area
Network with a (compelling) standard usage model.
--
/!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, CS Major, VLSI. http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~mneideng
"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Operator/Jack-of-all-Trades, CACR
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
-Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict