• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

If I were a human and you were a computer.

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A computer doesn’t think until it gets an input.

Then it thinks incessantly until it produces an output.

A human thinks incessantly until it gets an input. This is the only moment that the thinking stops. It only stops for the duration of the input.

Then it thinks incessantly until it has an output.

Then it thinks incessantly on how to eliminate any more inputs and outputs.
 
What do you mean a human stops once it gets an input
Human thinking stops during the input. Like if you are in a car accident. You are not thinking during the input of the accident, you are purely reacting. Once the accident is over, you thinking resumes.

Thinking is in mind analysis and mental commentary.
 
I have though about this and I think OP is right. It’s kind of like the mind verses observer dichotomy. Humans have some part of themselves that observes their thinking. How could we listen to our minds otherwise? When something is happening and we are paying complete attention to it, the thinking stops. I do think people can train their minds to get in the observer state without needing an input (think meditation)
 
I have though about this and I think OP is right. It’s kind of like the mind verses observer dichotomy. Humans have some part of themselves that observes their thinking. How could we listen to our minds otherwise? When something is happening and we are paying complete attention to it, the thinking stops. I do think people can train their minds to get in the observer state without needing an input (think meditation)
Then it thinks incessantly on how to eliminate any more inputs and outputs.
 

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