Hey Guarav — yeah I agree, it doesn’t *feel* right to make the comparisons I make…. not just the GPS example, but other examples… however it *logics* right… which is what compels me to post such things. Logically machines can also have out of body experiences of sorts — my wife for example had an iPhone where the GPS was bugged out. It would do all kinds of things, suggesting restaurants and giving directions like we were in some other place. There was no major malfunction… it just functioned as if it thought it were somewhere else. I myself have done this from time to time, getting out of a subway exit and thinking I was at the other exit and making some wrong turn. Granted, this doesn’t come anywhere near what it’s like to have an out of body experience as a human. But there are tons of *feelings* there as well, as a human, when we have such experiences. Humans, mind you, can also have their location function turned off it is like a module of sorts…. for example humans when they have taken loads of drugs or are very drunk, often don’t know where they are. But they can still converse and do many other things that don’t involve this knowledge. We could split hairs over which is more modular in its location function — the human or the machine — under a variety of conditions. But the fact remains that both have an awareness of location that is core to many other operations that happen within each organism.