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So, if you can switch without thrashing, then it seems fluid. What do you think?
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I am in favor of this latter idea, even though the only way I can explain it is by saying the whole system is just...fluid. This is the defining human element, then?
You will notice, however, that the majority of people actually do end up thrashing - I see it all the time. Specifically when it is something outside of their comfort zone and a large amount of thoughts are present - is this due to the conditioning we give them as children? A natural state, I imagine, would be more fluid.
The only flaw in my analogy is the fact that thrashing no longer really occurs because our hardware is so fast now. There are multiple technologies used to decrease processing time (hypther-threading, multiple cores) but the processor is still susceptible to thrashing because all of these technologies are built from the same elemental logic gates. Even with thread scheduling, if you load the processor up with processes it will schedule all of them until it comes to a screeching halt trying to run each one.