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In article <1992Oct07.170419.12508@Veritas.COM>, DICRESCE_PEJ@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU writes:
> A> Artificial Intelligences are mentioned, but nothing is said about HUMAN
> A> artificial intelligences.  I assume that if programs like Soulkiller (from
> A> "Never Fade Away") can tear a person's psyche out of his body, others   
> A> can make copies of human minds.  There must be experimentation going on
> A> with this, or something.  I like the "Ghost in the Machine" idea, and
> A> would like to bring the netghost of Alt, Johnny Silverhand's girlfriend,
>  
> Although I seriously disagree with the whole idea of the brain coming OUT 
> through the cyberdeck (I can see stimulating the brain to facilitate 'images' 
> and 'sensations' coming IN via the CREATOR algorithms.  I could see those same 
> electrical stimulations being used to fry your brain, wipe your memory, implant 
> suggestions, give you a heart attack, whatever.  But to have your 'deck READ 
> YOUR MIND and re-create your consciousness in the Net?  Not here, man.  Try
> Dark Conspiracy), you could theorize that a Net Ghost would have the same Net 
> stats as it did in life (initiative, intelligence, Interface stat, programming 
> skills), but would have to sneak into other systems to use THEIR resources.  
> Blackprograms would have a problem hitting you (frankly, you're already dead;
> no meat or grey matter to beat up on), but programs designed to attack other 
> programs or systems might hurt a lot more.  Or not at all.  You might not be 
> able to 'physically' interact with anything in the Net.  [This is why I don't 
> like allowing Net Ghosts to happen.  Way too much philosophy and paranormal 
> babbling involved.  This is Cyberpunk.] 
>
    Yes, this is Cyberpunk. But I thought that William Gibson's Neuromancer is
THE cyberpunk novel. Have you read it :-)? Do you remember the ROM construct Dix
McCoy? Or the ROM construct of the Finn in Mona Lisa overdrive? I didn't find
them too paranormal or a bad invention at all.
    Why wouldn't that kind of human AI's or ghosts in the net work in the game,
too?


    Jukka, the Finn