| From: | Evan Hughes <ehughes@****.carleton.ca> |
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| Subject: | Re: How the hell does a deck work? |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Dec 95 13:12:14 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.
*grin* And another thing: in Srun, there is such a thing as the soul --
although what form it takes, I am uncertain. What is for sure however, is
that the idea of sentience is not based on a biological model (something
like the duel aspect theory for all you folks in philosophy).
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