Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20151118083252/@comment-24891101-20151210032521

Freezing a person in their entirety would halt their neural processes, and so subjectively their experience would be seemless. That makes perfect sense.

I still don't really like limitations of that sort, because they would seem to occur with reference to an outside database, if they're operating like I think. If the user is just selectively freezing people by themselves, there's no problem, but if she can just think "freeze people who meet this criterion", then there's a problem. It means that the semblance has to do its own computation (somehow) and make judgements by itself, with no input from the user. It seems wrong.

It's the difference, when wanting to freeze everyon wearing blue in a room, between the user identifying manually everyone wearing blue and targeting them herself, and simply telling her semblance to do it for itself, because the semblance itself has no concept of blue (it's just a frequency continuum, and you have binning issues). It also relies on information she has no knowledge of, and the ability to steal it from the minds of others rubs me the wrong way. If the criterion is "is a student", that's even worse, as the term has no physical meaning whatsoever. It's one thing for a semblance to apply a field and have varying responses based on properties, thereby indirectly measuring them, same as all other physics, but it's entirely another to have knowledge of purely human-origin things.