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- From: v067rcyf@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (AARDVARK)
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- Subject: Re: Assistance Needed
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 20:16:00 GMT
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- In article <92321.200039DRASCH@auvm.american.edu>, DRASCH@auvm.american.edu writes...
- >I am reading Michael Benedikt's article: "Cyberspace: Some Proposals." In the
- >article Benedikt coins and defines the term, "The princple of scale." Benedikt
- >defines the term as, "the maximum (Space) velocity of user motion in cyberspace
- >is an inverse, monotonic function of the complexity of the world visible
- >to him."
-
- i may be way off, but i think he is talking of lag time,
- the more complex the view, the longer it takes the computer
- to create it...
- the less to see and construct, the faster you go.
-
- >
- >My problem is with the range of vision, is it possible for the eye and brain to
- >actually process all of this information. Or is Benedikt saying that by this
- >time the brain will be enhanced with other processors. Kinda of like Jordy's
- >visor in StarTrek The New Generation.
-
- every day the eye is bombarded with gajillions of bits of info,
- which is projected onto the retina,
- for the brain to process and comprehend...
- i think the brain will accept cyberspace as something
- fresh off the optic nerve and deal with it as such,
- ignoring anything that's overwhelming,
- since it's not designed process anything other
- than what the eye gives it.
-
- >
- >I fact, wouldn't that be the ultimate VR Screen. Have direct connections into
- >the optical nerves? My problem again is with sensory overload of the brain.
- >Now if the Visor has preprocessors that would que and buffer information to the
- >brain. Then I could see Benedikt's point.
-
- i seem to recall hearing about some recent technology
- where an optic nerve of a blind person
- was stimulated electronically, bypassing the eye
- and allowing the person to "see".
-
- >
- >Or then again, maybe I'm way off base?
- if so, who's on first?
-
- open for flaming....i've got lots-o-extra asbestos
-
- -------------------aardvark
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