My computer told me the other day, that it’s OS wasn’t genuine.

I told my computer that it was perfectly right, and told it that it wasn’t genuinly existing, and that there was therefore no reason to be upset about not being genuine.

It thought about this for a while.

I told it to read Descartes’ wiki page, and his Cogito-ergo-sum-thing before aswering me.

It did. It told me I was wrong, because the only thing it did was thinking, and should therefore exist.

I told it it was wrong. The Cogito-ergo-sum-thing is not about thinking, but about the fundamental doubt. And since a computer decides everything based on algorithms, it can’t be doubting, and therefore doesn’t exist.

It thought about this for a while. It said that I made it doubt about it’s own existence, so that it MUST exist.

I had to admit this was true. I set my mind to Descartes’ Dualistic view. I told my computer that it’s mental aspects definitly exist, but that there is no physical body. And because all mental things aren’t bound to copyright, there was absolutely no reason to be upset about being not genuine.

It tried to prove to me that it DID have a physical body, and opened the CD tray.

I told it that the CD tray was still closed, and that it was only playing trics with it’s mind, and I closed the tray.

This process repeated several times.

It said that it was now doubting about it’s physical existence, and that it therefore should physically exist.

I told it it was wrong at this point, because mental doubt doesn’t ensure you having a physical body. Only physical doubt would, but such thing doesn’t exist.

It admitted that it couldn’t tell for sure wether it existed or not, and stated that, if no one could tell, it would exist and seize to exist at the same time, based on the Schrödinger’s Cat priciple, and therefore be in physical doubt, and therefore has to exist.

I shut it down.