From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	Re: How the hell does a deck work?
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:43:51 -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.
>
> 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.

I never claimed that the datajack attached merely to the sensory inputs =)
As for generating unconscious stimuli, or at least "subconscious" stimuli,
sensory feeds may be sufficient. There are a lot of things that your senses
are telling you that you aren't conscious of...
--
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