Warp wrote:
>   You are not deluded into thinking that something happened even though it
> didn't. You are deluded into thinking that it happened because you chose
> for it to happen, rather than it happening just as a consequence of previous
> events. If it happened as a consequence, it's not a choice.
> 

Snort. Tell me something I don't know. Its not like I, at least, am not 
perfectly aware that studies on how the brain thinks have shown 
"awareness" as a post hock attempt to invent justification for an 
action, which was already beginning, even before we became consciously 
aware of it. Sentience is a deterministic machine, basing its actions on 
thousands of independent *processes*, all which take place before 
awareness, lying to itself about why it did something. Its a useful lie, 
since sometimes the more integrated "conscious" mind can filter multiple 
alternate paths, which might have been chosen, and ignored data, and 
tell the action, which is already in progress, to halt, on the basis of 
higher level reasoning, including recognition that the action in 
progress is dangerous, or unwanted. The fiction is necessary, to make 
sure that false actions, which can harm the individual, or things it 
values, do not cause the harm, which was not directly perceptible on the 
*simpler* levels. Duh!

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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