From:	Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Cyber-psychosis
Date:	Tue, 13 Jun 1995 22:05:46 -0400

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
writes:

Robert> Hear, hear... I can't see why having a limb replaced would make
Robert> you less human. I can understand why someone mentally unbalanced
Robert> would be more likely to volunteer for it, though...

In which case they're unhinged *BEFORE* the surgery, not because of it.

Robert> The only justification I can see for the cyberpyschosis syndrome
Robert> is that you do end up fiddling with the brain. This could be bad
Robert> if you didn't know what you were doing.

In which case you would be unable to graft cybernetics to the nervous
system. You wouldn't have ASIST technologies. Rigging and decking
wouldn't exist. Cybernetic prosthetics would be little better than they
are today. Skill wires and wired reflexes would be impossible.

This is obviously not the case in most cyber-RPGs.

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