[ExI] Digital Consciousness

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Now, tell me (because it seems that you would know), in an old-fashioned mechanical clock, which cog is it that knows the time? (is that the right way to put it?  Perhaps I should say "which cog has the timeness quality?")
> Is it that little spiky one?  I always suspected the little spiky one, but could never tell for sure.
>
> Another conundrum that has me puzzled is how on earth were we able to 'upload' the time-telling function to digital watches?  I mean, which bit of a digital watch is even remotely like a little spiky cog?  (it is the spiky one, isn't it!?)

I wish there was some other way to +1 this post without adding a
useless comment, but I liked this response _that_ much :)