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5 Anonymous 01/ 03/ 16( Sun) 12: 49: 44 No.
You know in Toy Story 3
when Mr Potato Head puts
his face bits on a tortilla
and escapes? Really
500 KB bothers me. Where is Mr
Potato Head' s consciousness located? is
he an assortment of bits'? A swarm? is he
incorporeal? And the face bits are just the
ritual objects which summon him into a
host shell? What if we pressed his face bits

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#3 - notwalkingwaffles (01/08/2016) [-]

From Wikipedia:
"Mr. Potato Head was "born" on May 1, 1952. The original toy cost $0.98, and contained hands, feet, ears, two mouths, two pairs of eyes, four noses, three hats, eyeglasses, a pipe, and eight felt pieces resembling facial hair. The original Mr. Potato Head kit did not come with a potato "body", so parents had to provide their own potato into which children could stick the various pieces."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Potato_Head

Perhaps it is when it's defined as a toy that it gets sentience, which is why they all fear death at the end in Toy Story 3, because when molten they are no longer considered toys, but Buzz can lose his arm in Toy Story 1 with no fear of death. Like a god of many a homebrew system, they gain their power from being thought of, and die out when no believers are there.

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#12 to #3 - boomerpyro (01/08/2016) [-]

toys gain life from how many that don't believe they're alive, that's why they hide

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#1 - weepeep ONLINE (01/07/2016) [-]

That only confuses you?

***** we are talking about a universe of talking toys and how daycare toys form a hierachy that treats the new toys like how adolf treats jews

#23 to #1 - stepsword (01/08/2016) [-]

The issue I take with comments like this is that each universe of a movie/book has its own set of rules, and things make sense within that set of rules - but when something seems to break their set of rules, its understandably upsetting, because we are considering things given the other information we have, and not as if it were part of the real world today.

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#8 - AnonymousDonor ONLINE (01/08/2016) [-]

im going to answer this with a concept i gleaned from Mass Effect

namely, that the essence of "consciousness" is as simple as the communication of 'lesser' functional components

in that example, the synthetically created robot race known as the Geth only became "conscious" with free thought (enough to rebel against their creators) when the individual drones began communicating
--and the hive mind/shared consciousness of the Geth was only as strong as its capacity for storing individual members

and, while i have not thoroughly vetted this philosophical conundrum, I currently think this may be true of every 'consciousness'

because you only see organization and purpose [traits of a conscious 'mind'] in entities that are collections of smaller entities

and, as potential evidence, just look how the human race has changed through the advent of the internet and increasing level of individual connection
--while we are still morbidly divided, the shared venue of communication has - relatively speaking - made grand progress in the unification of the human race into one collective consciousness
.............hell, the same could be said about the telephone, the postal service, .... the caravan........

TL;DR
--Mr Potato Head's consciousness is in his parts
--all consciousness is a swarm

#21 to #8 - nephtus (01/08/2016) [-]

**** , dude, that made way more sense than I thought it would have. I think you might be on to something here, too bad an image board is not the best place to host such interesting thoughts.

#18 to #8 - failsc (01/08/2016) [-]

its probably more like this

#13 to #8 - jaevel ONLINE (01/08/2016) [-]

#15 - sgstevie (01/08/2016) [-]

Well, Mrs Potato Head could still see out of her eye, despite it being disconnected.

My theory is that the main plastic body is still the source of consciousness... the CPU, if you will. And everything else is... wireless...

Unplug all the bits and they'll still work, running from that central unit. Smush the plastic body, and the pieces flop dead. But so long as he retains control of the limbs, he can plug them in anywhere and drag that thing (in this case, a tortilla) around.

As for the final question, plugging his pieces into a human body would do nothing to the person, except probably cause exceptional pain.

#11 - aleksandurr (01/08/2016) [-]

The proper term is Hivemind, each of his little pieces are their own, but they think and can act as one, presumably telepathically. This is shown when the mr (or was it mrs.?) potato head loses their eye, and finds it in andy's room by covering their other eye and looking through the disconnected part.

#9 - gayboard (01/08/2016) [-]

It's the parts that give him life, similar to how Frosty The Snowman needs the hat to be given life.

#4 - thecraftedmine (01/08/2016) [-]

What if we pressed his face bits...
???? ? ??????? ???? ?? ?????? ?????

post whole thing next time OP

#6 to #4 - infested (01/08/2016) [-]

into a person? does he possess them?

Translated from ****** crop to English

#14 - fridayhype (01/08/2016) [-]

Decent post, but dear ******* god is that a **** crop.

#19 - langweilig ONLINE (01/08/2016) [-]

WHERE THE **** IS ANY OF THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS THEYRE ******* TOYS

#20 to #19 - KEpToK (01/08/2016) [-]

Who's ******* who now? Did you watch a different Toy Story than the rest of us?

#22 to #19 - anon (01/08/2016) [-]

Oh well, would you like to point out to the class the location of the human conciousness? And explain exactly what it is.

#25 to #22 - someoneforamoment (01/08/2016) [-]

If you were asking about the soul it would be a tad trickier.

#28 to #25 - anon (01/09/2016) [-]

That's the brain, we're asking about actual "conciousness". Something that isn't there when you're dead, or even just in a vegetative state but still alive. Something that exists in humans but not in animals.

#29 to #28 - someoneforamoment (01/10/2016) [-]

That's in the brain. Human consciousness is like an OS. It's nothing more than a pattern that needs a medium to reside in.

#24 to #22 - anon (01/08/2016) [-]

Well it's technically in the brain, since that is the part that makes all the smaller parts work by sending out impulses based on data it analyzes, isn't it?

#7 - boothers (01/08/2016) [-]

A banana peeled to your liking, your incorporealness - Spongebob Squarepants

#2 - mudkipfucker (01/07/2016) [-]

#10 - distortedflare ONLINE (01/08/2016) [-]

Simple his body the potato controls the parts even when they are separate from the body.

#26 to #10 - someoneforamoment (01/08/2016) [-]

The what happens if his body is swapped with a different Mr Potatoe head?

And what happens if Mr and Mrs potatoe head get mixed up? Do they continue on as normal or do they swap all their parts when nobody is looking?