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My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was

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Re: My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was

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what does this have to do with programming? Edit: responses to the question make sense.

Its a fine test of how much the community can come out and endorse another group of people who can't possibly be held responsible for their own actions or choices - because we feel sorry for them.

Re: My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was

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what does this have to do with programming? Edit: responses to the question make sense.

For whatever reason, most of the programmers I know are intrigued in some way by brains; maybe it's something to do with being able to handle abstraction, or seeing consciousness as just another process or program, or something like that. Throw in how we're all used to debugging systems by observing the way break down produce emergent behavior, and something like this story becomes a fascinating tidbit about and potential insight into the functionality of the human mind.
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