Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Theory of mind - on the computer. a bit funny (or not)

So we've talked before about "uploading your brain", as if the brain itself is "where" you reside.

I own a laptop that i use for work and pleasure. when I'm working, i'm down here (as now) on a 19 inch screen. when i'm having fun, i'm on the laptop itself. But in my mind, without thinking about it, they are *different* computers, cause i think of the monitor as the computer some how.

So I was looking at some, um... well... "risque" stuff and said to myself. "oh, it's ok, that was upstairs on the other computer". All because we are as accustomed to thinking about the monitor as "the" computer as we are to thinking about the brain as "the" self.

I just find it funny that my first instinct is always that i'm using different puters.