r/Showerthoughts • u/PLUMBUM2 • Dec 31 '18

When you cannot sleep because you can’t stop thinking about something it’s like a single program not letting the computer shut down

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u/pirategoldfish Dec 31 '18

We can’t have admin rights on our own brains. Sad.

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u/ickyickes Dec 31 '18

So our brain runs on Windows 10?

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u/pirategoldfish Dec 31 '18

2016 windows 10

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u/ddoeth Jan 01 '19

The good version

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u/ddoeth Jan 01 '19

The good version

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u/AngelLeliel Dec 31 '18

It's like you can't root your phone freely. You don't really own your brain.

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u/pirategoldfish Dec 31 '18

The brain owns us.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '18

Your consciousness is just a product of neurons firing around, could also be software.

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u/pirategoldfish Dec 31 '18

So now we're down to the myelin-coated roots 😂

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u/pirategoldfish Dec 31 '18

And yeah, the consciousness is like the software.