From: | Richard Pieri <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU> |
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Subject: | encephalons and cyberdecks |
Date: | Mon, 19 Jul 1993 19:38:07 EDT |
"multitasking capabilities."
Now, there's a little line in the shadowtalk in Shadowtalk to the effect of
"the encephalon lets you multitask your cognitive abilities." What it
doesn't say is that your brain already does this. Can you walk down the
street, chew gum, kick a rock or can, while listening to a walkman? That's
your mind multitasking--performing several tasks simultaneously. What the
encephalon does is make it easier to perform technically oriented tasks
better. It also provides access multiple skillsofts simultaneously, just
like your brain has access to all of it's knowledge simultaneously--this is
the "multitasking" capability of the encephalon. It does *not* let you
handle two (or more) full sets of stimuli simultaneously, like you'd get
from the simrigs of a pair of cyberdecks (a cyberdeck without a simrig
isn't a cyberdeck, but a useless chunk of plastic and optical fibre).
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