- TAP (novelette)
"TAP" is a 1995 novelette by
Greg Egan . It is set in a near-future society in which brain implants allow immersive virtual reality. The implants also allow a new kind of language called "TAP" – Total Affective Protocol. TAP is essentially a way of makingqualia into words.:"“A single TAP word could capture this moment -- perfectly encoding my entire sensorium, and everything I'm thinking and feeling. A word I could speak, write, recall. Study at a distance -- scan -- or play, relive completely. Inflect and modify. Quote exactly (or not) to the closest friend or the most distant stranger.”"
TAP words can be read like English, or invoked to be experienced, like virtual reality.
Plot introduction
TAP is a murder mystery in which religious and cultural groups think that a poet has been killed by a word in an all-encompassing thought-language.
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motif of harmful sensation External links
* [http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/tap.htm TAP]
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