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Originally Posted by David Hausladen  Consider the following analogy: Our immaterial memory is like the hard drive of a computer (long-term "storage" memory for those not familiar with computer hardware) while our physical memory is like the RAM (short-term "working" memory). In other words, what we have in our brain is just a small part of the total memory available to us, "cached" in our physical body to make it easily accessible to the brain for processing. |
How weird! I was reading this thread from the beginning and came up with a similar computer-related analogy of consciousness, but with a difference:
The Internet as the overall, God, highest-consciousness connected to everyone. And an unconnected computer being the "empty shell".
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Just a thought. Don't quote me on it, it's probably wrong  .
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Haha, sorry for quoting. As for being wrong, how can it be wrong? We're just grasping at the true nature of things, the best we can.
~Jm4362