soul of a computer

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

What would you define the soul of a computer as? How much upgrading can you do before the computer is a new identity? And if you don't have a name for your computer, you shouldn't be writing in this conversation!
Tas.

 

[dugweb]

the case

 

[loup garou]

the dustbunnies in the bottom of the case...

 

[Zolty]

mass

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

mass???
Tas.

 

[GhettoFob]

cpu/mobo

 

[dullard]

Hmm, I always thought as the electricity as the soul of the computer (without electricity it is just a dead lifeless body). But then that doesn't answer your question. It must then be the motherboard.

 

[FeuerFrei]

the activation key for WinXP

 

[xcript]

The porn stash on the hard disk.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Activation key? Then those that have an illegal version of Windows are undead??? hehehehe
Tas.

 

[yoda291]

the OS/Software build on the HD.

 

[ElFenix]

my comp is still named screamer even though the delta fan was removed sometime in 2001. and no other part, except the dvd player and the soundcard, are the same.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
my comp is still named screamer even though the delta fan was removed sometime in 2001. and no other part, except the dvd player and the soundcard, are the same.

So you are saying, just like with Michael Jackson and with Cher, that the body can endlessly change/be replaced without killing the soul?

 

[ed21x]

usually turning the computer on for the first time and hearing all the fans whirling is the first indication that the computer is alive.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I am the soul of the computer.

 

[Spike]

cpu/mobo definitly, thats when it has a new identity

-spike

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: ElFenix
my comp is still named screamer even though the delta fan was removed sometime in 2001. and no other part, except the dvd player and the soundcard, are the same.

So you are saying, just like with Michael Jackson and with Sher, that the body can endlessly change/be replaced without killing the soul?

actually... the case is the same. with the addition of a window. that i hate. next fan isn't going to have bright blue lights in it.

 

[JulesMaximus]

German computers have more soul than any Japanese or American computer.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: ElFenix
my comp is still named screamer even though the delta fan was removed sometime in 2001. and no other part, except the dvd player and the soundcard, are the same.

So you are saying, just like with Michael Jackson and with Sher, that the body can endlessly change/be replaced without killing the soul?

You are assuming, of course, that either of those two actually has a soul. (Cher?) I think somebody replaced both of them with androids years ago.

 

[InlineFive]

I would say the hard disk since that stores all the information that makes your computer yours!

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
You are assuming, of course, that either of those two actually has a soul. (Cher?) I think somebody replaced both of them with androids years ago.

So, if a computer has a soul, why can't an android?

And you are assuming, of course, that I can speel.

 

[Colt45]

mobo

 

[csyberblue]

I consider the soul to be the hard drive. I named my computer Prometheus. When the hard drive crashed, I lost all of my data. When I put in a new hard drive, I renamed the computer to Apollo.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

The user

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
the activation key for WinXP

Close - I'd go with the OS. Replace all the hardware you want, same OS install, same soul.

If we are presuming a computer's "soul" is akin to a human one - that is, a nebulous concept that means a pile of functioning parts is 'alive'.

Course...if you got a virus that wiped your boot sector...your computer could still turn ON, but no OS would boot...

Would that be 'a persistent vegetative state', then?