From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	Re: How the hell does a deck work?
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:41:48 -0800 (PST)

According to Evan Hughes:
>
> Mark L. Neidengard writes:
> > 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).

Well, for understandable reasons they don't seem to have delved too deeply into
how the soul interacts with the meat body. But it is sufficient to know that
there _is_ a soul that can be separated from the body, and that the body can
act when "indwelt" with a soul.
--
/!\/!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!"
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