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still unpersuasive

Authored by: Wol on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 07:25 PM EDT

Yup. Your phone is an electrical device. It relies on electrons flowing in order
to make it work. So moving electrons around doesn't turn it into a different
device, right?

And the only difference between a bricked phone and a working phone, is that a
few electrons are in the wrong place. Just as the public drains are meant to
move sewage but a bit of sewage in the wrong place causing a blockage doesn't
mean the drain ceases to be a drain (it may cease to be *working* drain), so a
few electrons in the wrong place causing a blockage doesn't cause your phone to
stop being a phone. Despite causing it to stop being a *working* phone.

Your phone probably has all the circuitry there so that someone with the correct
knowledge could judiciously and temporarily attach a couple of wires to move the
blocking electrons and restore functionality. So your phone will have gone from
working, to bricked, to working, all without ANY changes to its physical
"phone"ness.

Cheers,
Wol

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