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		acuozzo 7 days ago \| 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 6 days ago [–]

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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