> All one is left with is pure thought fueled by memory > Pure thought lacks space..lacks sense of self. I think this is stretching the definition of 'thought

> All one is left with is pure thought fueled by memory > Pure thought lacks space..lacks sense of self. I think this is stretching the definition of 'thought' past the point of meaninglessness. If you remove all interaction with the rest of the universe, any closed system will still have self-interaction. And if you take it to the extreme, any collection of matter can be seen to 'compute' some function. Which one of those systems 'thinks'? All of them? Every sub-system of every system?