| From: | "Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Auras |
| Date: | Mon, 11 May 1998 14:04:12 -0700 |
> From: Alexia Silverstein <alexia_silverstein@*****.COM>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Auras
> Date: Monday, May 11, 1998 1:59 PM
>
> > > A lump of meat, sitting on your plate about to be eaten, has an
> astral
> > > presence. But it does not have an aura, and not in the same sense
> that a
> > > human or troll has an aura. A vat of flesh genetically engineered
> and
> > > biologically viable has an astral presence, but it has no
> consciousness,
> > no
> > > "life" and so it has no active aura. This, if you read enough of
> FASA,
> > > especially Awakenings and the Corp Sec Handbook, becomes apparent.
> > >
> >
> > This one jumped out at me. How exactly would this differ from a
> plant?
> > The first thought that comes to mind is that vat grown flesh is just a
> > chunk of unassociated "meat" forced to grow through a complex chemical
> > process, rather than having any life associated with it. Just
> wanted to
> > make it a bit clear in my head, I guess.
> >
>
> Alright I just have to put my two cents in. I was watching a
> documentary a while back and they were talking about people who had
> amputations. Some people have it that they sometimes get cramps in
> their "ghost arm" or whatever was amputated. They also did something
> where they could take pictures of people's auras. Don't ask how they
> did it, I don't know, I just thought it was really funky. They took a
> picture of a guy who had his arm amputated's aura and it showed the
> guy with a faint glow of his arm, which was in a different position
> than his new hooked arm. So if the body can remember the arm, can the
> arm remember the body. I guess I didn't help the subject very
> much...I'll just shut up now...
>
I've heard about most of that... I hadn't heard about the photo thing. In
the words of Dennis Leary: "Cuh-reeepy!"
They talk about that sort of think in Cybertech, don't they? Thinking your
cyberarm is situated one way, when it's really pointing another way. Man,
no wonder people think heavily cybered guys are scary.
