| From: | Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Simsense and Astral Perception |
| Date: | Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:03:13 EST |
int.com writes:
>
> Whoa! Stop the presses. Creating a new being? Maybe the reason
> we're having such difficulty coming to a consensus on this issue is
> because we're talking about totally different things.
> Are we no longer dicussing whether or not ASIST will record astral
> perception? Did I miss a segue somewhere?
>
> Marc (who's looking through his old messages with a perplexed look on his
> face)
Marc, you are discussing the concept of a person that would develop Astral
Perception as a portion of the brain that is a couple of things.
Apparently not being widely used now at this time (pre-SR type history)
And acts a sensory translator for the information that is made available to
the mind via this new sensory input (astral perception).
As ALL being in SR are derived from human stock (HEY- PATRICK!!! You'll like
this one! ;-P), then all portions of their (meta)human mind are apparently
functionally compatible enough that they are mappable enough to perform
cybernetic implantation (IMS, Encephalon, Datajack) and neural augmentation
(Mnemonic Enhancer, Cerebral Booster).
Now then, with *THAT* fact in mind, and your concept of a new portion of the
mind itself "awakenings" to the sensations of astral perception, which all
that information is being translated by *something* to be useful/usable
information for the individual doing the perception, then perhaps the idea
that the *USER* is just like (well...okay, more or less like) you and I.
Normal, mundane, people who make analogous comparisons to the experiences they
sensate during the course of their lives through their, ever-growing, array of
experiences previous to the point in current.
In other words, we are all "people", and as such we are likely to function
(physiologically) like everyone else, even with another "sensory option" built
in. We are going to relate that information to whatever it is we have learned
and compare it to stuff that has happened to us previously. If we don't, then
it well and truly is something NEW, and in either case, we are still as
(meta)human beings going to draw analogous comparisons to the event, if, when
and where, possible.
It is how *WE* are.
I'm not inventing a new species, but by seperating a new sensory relationship
with the a given mind and saying it's a "NEW SENSORY TYPE", then in effect,
you are well and truly creating and entirely new species type.
And seeing as how there are human, ork, troll, dwarven, shaper, vampire,
elven, immortal, draconic and *other* (1% of the New Seattle population still
;-) magicians, then that is NOT a consideration where astral perception is
concerned, and in several of those categories, it is also NOT a defining
difference for the category of ASIST/Simsense technology.
-K (who admits, dragons yes....*other*, well, I'll wait until I meet one..
;-)
