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		acuozzo on Nov 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why don't you move abroad? If CPUs are made of transistors, then why do we call them broken when they stop functioning even though the chip still remains?

hshshshshsh on Nov 22, 2024 [–]

Are you saying CPUs are alive as in how humans and birds are alive and have conscious experiences? What is that experience? Is it the body? Or something else ?

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