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Here's the killer...
A computer does nothing more than take in information in its world and act upon it based on information it has taken in before. The only things that the computer knows without prior information are completely subconscious -- the spinning of fans, electric current running through its circuits, the power and HDD LEDs on the front of the case, etc. In essence, computers do nothing more than process information based on information, which is in turn either based on other information or created by a human being, which is where the root of it is. Here it comes, ready? How is the human brain any different? As soon as we enter the world, we start taking in the world around us, for the sole purpose of providing our brain with information to process. From this information we produce what we think to be our own conclusions, but are really the result of a very familiar process: processing information based on information, which more often than not is furthermore based on information, and so on.
What am I trying to say? Sentience is forged from information. We aren't merely influenced by the media. The output of the media makes up some of the building blocks for our very soul. As much as we are as biological creatures sons of our respective fathers, we are as sentient beings children of the media. With this, I'm forced to conclude that human beings are nothing more than machines designed to process information, perhaps evolve it. Perhaps life itself began in a very similar way...
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You shall not listen to me, and you shall not ignore any nonsense before me, nor make any idols representing my nonsense, for I AM THE NONSENSE, and there is no other nonsense besides me.
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