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Arguably, computers seems to suffer when there are be computations : they becomes hot and start to breathe a lot. That's a little irrational be I used to feel a little bad when I saw my old computer "suffering" when I was younger.



Seems unlikely that's suffering, any more than petrol suffers.

Animals (like us) suffer as part of our evolved aversion response. We have an in-built capacity for preference. Current-day computers lack this.


Just because you are hot and breath a lot it doesn't mean you are suffering, you are just working more. You start to suffer when you work over your limits, like when you overclock a computer too much and starts to glitch because some parts of it cannot handle it.




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