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Message no. 1
From: Rob Davies <Rob.Davies@**.CF.AC.UK>
Subject: psychosis (was: Physical Adepts and Cyber/WetWare??)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 15:32:08 +0100
[] > o Do low essence individuals get penalties when dealing with
[] > high essence contacts. ( he twitches, he seemed cold,
[] > uncaring like he would cut off his own arm for an
[] > edge)
[]
[] That's CP2020's cyberpsychosis slipping in again. Rat isn't around AFAIK,
[] you're lucky there... :) Cyberpsychosis has no basis in reality, it was
[] introduced in the Cyberpunk game system as a quick fix to prevent players
[] from taking too much cyberware, and has since been copied by many other
[] games.
[]
Yes it was a quick fix, but kind of nice I always thought. People
who have lost a limb still 'feel' sensations from the missing
limb. Combine those fake feelings with the impulses from a
cyberlimb and you might get a kind of physical schizophrenia
(schizophrenics are introverted, delusional, unable to distinguish
real from unreal -my dictionary says).

Does your cyberlimb itch? Then you've gone too far.

Also your body language could easily suffer if your subconsious
does not interface with the limb properly. Interfacing with higher
brain functions might be well understood by 2050+, but I'd bet
there'd be plenty of theories & research into the subconsious;
especially post-awakening.

If you're too comfortable with the thought of cyberware there's a
great description in one of the suppliments about how a cybereye feels
cold (& heavy?) inside someones skull. It scared me!

Rob.
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Message no. 2
From: Duncan McNeill-Burton <Dreadnaut1@***.COM>
Subject: Re: psychosis (was: Physical Adepts and Cyber/WetWare??)
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 14:12:15 -0400
In a message dated 97-06-06 12:23:50 EDT, Rob wrote:

> If you're too comfortable with the thought of cyberware there's a
> great description in one of the suppliments about how a cybereye feels
> cold (& heavy?) inside someones skull. It scared me!

It's in the beginning of Cybertech, when Hatchetman is telling his life
story. Great stuff. That was the first time ( in SR ) that a Sourcebook had
ever addressed the effects of cyberware on the human psyche, and I think it
made the book worth buying. It changed the way I play my wire-heads.

< munch >
Well, that and the CyberArm Gyro-Mount with magnetic pads and internal
smartgun-2. You can't miss, hell, you can't even drop your gun.
< /munch >

Later-

Duncan
Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: psychosis (was: Physical Adepts and Cyber/WetWare??)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 09:59:27 +0100
Rob Davies said on 15:32/ 6 Jun 97...

> Does your cyberlimb itch? Then you've gone too far.

Unlikely, as that would mean people who've lost an arm or leg nowadays
would suffer from cyberpsychosis as well, since many of them sometimes
feel their missing limb itching. Real-life disabled people feel _better_
when they get a prosthetic arm or leg, because it allows them to do things
they couldn't do before. Imagine how a cyberlimb, which can do a lot more
than today's rather crude artificial limbs, would help them. It can be
argued that people with lots of cyberware are crazy to some degree or
other, sure, but IMHO getting your arms voluntarily removed and replaced
by metal ones means something's not quite right in your thought porcesses
already...

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Message no. 4
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: psychosis (was: Physical Adepts and Cyber/WetWare??)
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 15:45:23 -0700
---Rob Davies wrote:
>
> If you're too comfortable with the thought of cyberware there's a
> great description in one of the suppliments about how a cybereye
feels
> cold (& heavy?) inside someones skull. It scared me!

I think it was Hatchetman in his mini-bio in the back of
Cybertechnology. He said his cybereyes gave him a feeling of
disassociation, more like watching TV than actually "being there"
viewing the world around him.

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