Can electrical equipment be sentient?

[steppewar]

I have wondered this for a while now. For example, I have a pair of headphones that are a few years old and quite often the sound cuts out on them.

However, if I tap them the sound resumes through them. It is as if they are alive and working, but have just nodded off, like old people frequently do.

I have noticed that other pieces of aged electrical equipment I have owned over the years seems to resume working, at least temporarily, after giving it a good hard tap.

Nuts, yes, but true also.

Maybe this truth is where the producers of Faulty Towers got the idea from, to make Basil Faulty give his car a damn good thrashing with a tree branch, when it conked out on him.

Clip here ...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vUFRkxie0

PS, I'm sure I read in a recent David Icke book where he told of incidents from years ago when if he was driving his car in a bad mood, it would often break down, as if the car was picking up his negative energy and transferring it upon itself. It was either in Tales From The Time Loop or Infinite Love Is The Only Truth.

[particlezen]

yeah. my toaster is always cajoling me, even when i have no bread.

[goldman]

All equipment is under influence, through shocks, frequencies, mechanical stress, even noises like a loud bass can shake the solder points loose so they break a connection on the electrical board. This happenes a lot in old TV's that have speakers built in, set it too loud for many years and components will shake loose from the board.

[size_of_light]

Electrical equipment fucking hates me when I'm stoned.

CD and DVD players turn evil.

I don't know about innate sentience as much as I think that the state of your own conscious energy can effect the vibrations of electrical equipment and empower it with a kind of temporal consciousness that likes to run amok and fuck with your patience like an impish poltergeist when you're bent.

[goldman]

Somehow I only notice it while using Windows :rolleyes:

[haukipesukone]

I hit my computer, now it doesn't work. I don't think I hit it that hard. It didn't go poof when I hit it. When I turned it off a bit later there was some error notice that I didn't read. Later when I turned it off it didn't work.

I tried re-installing Windows several times, but seems the problem lies in the hardware. Still have to try at least a couple of times. But I'm not holding my breath. (In case you're wondering, I'm at the computer room in the dorms typing this.)

Tomorrow I have to take it to the school "help desk" if they can do something about it. I hope they can at least save some of the stuff on D-drive.

I've had the computer 2,5 years. I hate it and the feeling seems to be mutual.

[clozaril]

i believe so

i'm send my synthesiers positive vibes

[bulltwister]

One of my incomes comes from computer repairs, and I've had loads of people saying "computers and me just don't get on" or "I'm sure this thing hates me" when bringing it in for repair. I'm beginning to believe they know if you're being nice to them

[cafetimes1991]

Interesting thread!

[talulah]

I have wondered this for a while now. For example, I have a pair of headphones that are a few years old and quite often the sound cuts out on them.

However, if I tap them the sound resumes through them. It is as if they are alive and working, but have just nodded off, like old people frequently do.

I have noticed that other pieces of aged electrical equipment I have owned over the years seems to resume working, at least temporarily, after giving it a good hard tap.

Nuts, yes, but true also.

Maybe this truth is where the producers of Faulty Towers got the idea from, to make Basil Faulty give his car a damn good thrashing with a tree branch, when it conked out on him.

Clip here ...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vUFRkxie0

PS, I'm sure I read in a recent David Icke book where he told of incidents from years ago when if he was driving his car in a bad mood, it would often break down, as if the car was picking up his negative energy and transferring it upon itself. It was either in Tales From The Time Loop or Infinite Love Is The Only Truth.

Hahaha Thanks for posting the fawlty towers vid,its a classic.Its weird my washing machine broke down the other day,then ive heard of 3 other people whos washers have broken as well.ive tried everything from takin it apart to kicking it.its a digital one and i would advise peeps not to buy these are they are a bitch to repair.Its been a treck to the launderette the past week!:eek:

[kingmonkey]

Don't know about sentient but i reckon they can be affected by our/our consciousness being present on some kind of quantum level.

[haukipesukone]

Don't know about sentient but i reckon they can be affected by our/our consciousness being present on some kind of quantum level.

If the world is holographic and we create our reality, aren't we able to create machines that either love or hate us as well?

[abolitionist]

http://www.abolitionist-society.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1047

(don't worry about it)

[middleway00]

Did you know that carbon and silicon are the only two elements that are required for sentient life? of course you need more than carbon for a human body and more than silicon for an electrical device, but you can see how those two elements are essential for the life force, which is electromagnetic in nature, to function.

so yes, the computer is alive. is it self aware? well not my windows vista machine. then again, most human beings operate daily without being aware of
the self.

all this time and energy that we pour into computers will undoubtedly make the machines more self aware than the humans, being used by the computers. unless we turn back to ourselves, quickly now.:D

[kingmonkey]

If the world is holographic and we create our reality, aren't we able to create machines that either love or hate us as well?

It's possible. Anything is.

[bigus_dickus]

However, if I tap them the sound resumes through them. It is as if they are alive and working, but have just nodded off, like old people frequently do.

i have had that several times with headphones. it's simple, a wire inside the headphones has become detached or broken, so when you tap them, it touches and the electrical current flows. it can be fixed with soldering.

I have noticed that other pieces of aged electrical equipment I have owned over the years seems to resume working, at least temporarily, after giving it a good hard tap.

same case, i have been banging on my TV when it didn't work when i was younger and it came back on. not magic, a piece on the TV main board was burnt and a cable was detached. later i fixed this too with soldering.

[magickman]

I hit my computer, now it doesn't work. I don't think I hit it that hard. It didn't go poof when I hit it. When I turned it off a bit later there was some error notice that I didn't read. Later when I turned it off it didn't work.

I tried re-installing Windows several times, but seems the problem lies in the hardware. Still have to try at least a couple of times. But I'm not holding my breath. (In case you're wondering, I'm at the computer room in the dorms typing this.)

You may have cracked the motherboard, which is fastened to the case by screws, and can absorb shocks like you described. Open the case, and take out the board and look close for small cracks. A new mother board may be in order.

[magickman]

One of my incomes comes from computer repairs, and I've had loads of people saying "computers and me just don't get on" or "I'm sure this thing hates me" when bringing it in for repair. I'm beginning to believe they know if you're being nice to them

I too am into PC repair, and I am into Linux also. Any questions I will be happy to answer.

[eyepod]

Don't know about sentient but i reckon they can be affected by our/our consciousness being present on some kind of quantum level.

There have been numerous experiments conducted along similars lines to this whereby they attempt to get a subject to influence the output from machine or computer generated random events.

This is from a study appearing on Cambridge Uni Physics website:

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/psi/delanoy/node4.html (http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/%7Ebdj10/psi/delanoy/node4.html)
Two meta-analyses dealing with such effects will be reviewed, both of which suggest that mind can directly interact with matter. Both these databases involve participants attempting to make a random system behave in a non-random manner...

...Given these findings, Radin and Nelson concluded that ``it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that under certain circumstances, consciousness interacts with random physical systems''

If you Google "influencing random number generator" you'll find alot more like this.