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[Brightonian]

Steven Hawking says in an interview with the Guardian: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers ..."

But what if there was?

[admin]

What if only Apples go to heaven, and PCs go to the other place?

[slaven41]

"And St. Peter looked up from his Great Book and saw the iPad 17 before him. 'Ah, it's about time," he said. 'I always knew this day would come. A machine of such computing power that it would achieve not just consciousness, but a soul. Enter, my friend. You are welcome here.'"

[admin]

IPads die?!?

[Brightonian]

Wouldn't it be nice to think that when you go through the pearly gates, your Commodore Pet, TRS-80 or Sinclair Spectrum will be waiting for you?

[Third Foundationer]

Sounds vaguely like Kryten's "Silicon Heaven."

--3rdF

[slaven41]

IPads die?!?

Well, not of natural causes. Maybe it got run over.

[Brightonian]

What if only Apples go to heaven, and PCs go to the other place?

A rather timely news story:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/