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My guess at a computer analogy: Start program -> Delete program -> Crash process -> Resurrection of process impossible. The program being the bootstrapping me
by dogprez 7y ago
My guess at a computer analogy: Start program -> Delete program -> Crash process -> Resurrection of process impossible.
The program being the bootstrapping mechanism that is present in a baby's brain. The process being consciousness.
Even if the bootstrapping mechanism was still present in the brain, we might not know how to call it and even if we did we would lose everything that was in memory at the time of the crash.
- brobinson 7y agoReverse core dumps are possible, so I'm not sure this analogy is perfectly appropriate.
- sosborn 7y agoAnalogies aren’t meant to be 100% perfect. They are meant to provide a framework to understand a problem.
- khazhou 7y agoI always say: Analogies are like raccoons.
- rickycook 7y agoa core dump of the brain is pretty damn big... so that’s not really saying much; just that maybe we don’t have a man data to restore from
- m-p-3 7y agoIt makes you wonder if our brains work as RAM or as a more long-term storage when "rebooted".