From:	mneideng@****.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Subject:	Re: Wraith Astral Quest
Date:	Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:13:40 -0800 (PST)

According to Freddy Frypp no more:
>
> But it's still magical driven. I can't see how the magic and tech
> interacts successfully.

Alright. The magic lies in getting the sensory stuff from person A's memory
to person B's consciousness. However, the trip from B's stream of
consciousness to B's memory is totally mundane, meaning that making a recording
should be pretty normal. =)

> > It should also be noted that, since mages remember the details of having
> > Astrally Projected, there must be some chemical transcription going on in their
> > brain _as_ they project...meaning that a mage rigged as above should be able
> > to record the experience of his Astral body (not his physical one), again
> > assuming that we take the feed from the memory interface rather than from
> > the body's sensory inputs.
>
> Why assume that? ASIST doesn't go into memories. It just
> short-circuits the rest of the nervous system.

Well, as I said, there are differing grades of simsense recording. To make the
more detailed sort, it seems to me that a "convenient" way to do the
implementation is to plug into the memory interface. I can't think of any
other single well-defined "location" where all the information would be
available. Of course the less sophisticated stuff just taps the sensory
inputs, but the Full-X stuff is going to be more profound.
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