RE: Mind Over Matter?
April 5, 2015 at 7:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2015 at 7:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:I didn't really mean like a coma, because there is still experience in that state - dreams etc are not turning off the monitor, just depriving experience of external stimuli (IMO).
Sure, people still report experience in a coma - but computers still process when the monitor is off as well. The manner in which we determine if either a person in a coma or a computer with the monitor turned off are either experiencing or processing is remarkably similar. To make the analogy work better, with this modification..you would have to say something along the lines of
(and ignoring that many in a coma report copious amounts of input...producing output being the cheif complaint..lol)
-"if I unplugged the keyboard". We're talking inputs (a monitor is output - though both are UI), yeah? To which I would say...if you removed the inputs...you should expect a change in output, so yeah, it makes a difference.
-The overarching point here (before I forget it) is that "if it's something like 1" does not -lead to the question you then asked...it seeks to answer it. If it's something like 1...then that question is answered from the outset.
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