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Re:Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain by stcredzero on Sunday July 06, 2014 @06:13PM (#7996086)
If a backhoe hitting a cable junction triggered an AWS failure, we wouldn't say that the cable junction is where AWS "really happens".

What if instead of a cable junction for AWS, it was more like a clock in a CPU? Then it is part of what "really happens," but only a part.

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Re:Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain by coldtea on Sunday July 06, 2014 @07:43PM (#7996306)
>What if instead of a cable junction for AWS, it was more like a clock in a CPU? Then it is part of what "really happens," but only a part.

Well, the cable junction is also part of what really happens.

So the example is not that different.

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Re:Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain by stcredzero on Monday July 07, 2014 @02:36PM (#8000507)
Well, the cable junction is also part of what really happens.

Not quite as much. If the cable junction fails, someone downstream of that junction won't have access to the calculations, but someone upstream of it still will. Whereas, if the clock in a CPU fails, there's no calculations happening anywhere.

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