| From: | Evan Hughes <ehughes@****.carleton.ca> |
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| Subject: | Re: How the hell does a deck work? |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Dec 95 13:10:36 EST |
> 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.
I'm not talking about the deck, I'm talking about the jack's interface
with the brain. I agree with you (almost) completely about the matrix as a
WAN, but what happens between the brain and the actual hardware is another
question. Datajacks are not just a hardwired immersion tank (ie, chop the
nerves going to the body, and replace them with connections to the outside
world, to, in effect, remove the body's sensations from the brain), they
connect directly with all levels of the brain, and are supposed to be able
to connect to the nonconscious parts of the brain. To do this, they must
be wired into the bits of the brain that the decker's conscience does not
attach to.
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