From:	Marc Renouf renouf@********.com
Subject:	simsense and the astral [long]
Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:59:24 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Paul Gettle wrote:

> Um, actually, the emotive tracks that are recorded in Full-X simsense
> do deal with the regulation of bodily function.
>
> "The major emotive tracks are sympathetic, parasympathetic, adrenal,
> thalamic and hypo-thalamic, limbic and so on." -- Shadowbeat, p.75

Whoops, my bad. Good eye, Paul. However, by bodily function, I
was thinking more along the lines of heartbeat and breathing. If simsense
could jigger with your heartbeat and breathing, there's be dead moviegoers
all around the world, as O. Bese and Mr. Phat's hearts and lungs failed to
keep up with Dashing Dan the actor's well-toned body during the fight
scenes.
Of course, it may very well be that this is part of the RAS
Override stuff, and is carefully filtered out during post processing.
Perhaps this is why the "wet record" is so dangerous. Further, certain
type of BTL have been known to forego the RAS overrides. Maybe feeling
your pulse pounding and your breath racing is part of the overall BTL
rush.

> However, getting back to the issue at hand, which was something along
> the lines of "If the astrally projecting mage's meat body exhibits
> some sympathetic connection with what the mage's astral form is
> experiencing (as suggested by a novel), what would a simsense
> recording of that contain?" it seems clear that such a recording
> wouldn't be particularly useful.

This is more or less the point I've been trying to make. Thanks
for putting it so succinctly.

Marc