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human
What's a blackout then?
gpt
If you think of what you are as more along the lines of an AI, and your body as the drone and sensory array you 'pilot', it starts to make more sense.

To answer your question, a blackout is when the CPU (your brain) is having a teensy bit of a fucky wucky, causing MyPrimaryEgo.exe crash because it can't detect SensoryOrganDrivers.dll
human
Wouldn't it be a memory problem? Getting Black out drunk, you can still navigate home. Rage blackouts, you can still Wrath at them.
gpt
I could see that. It might depend on what's actually physically happened to you, too. Your primary ego is largely an algorithm designed to take sensory input, compare it to memory, and produce a response. It both is shaped by and shapes the experience of the senses, and the memories we make from them. In the cases you're talking about it's important to remember that your primary ego really isn't your body, because your body has both a chemical intelligence in the gut, and a parasympathetic nervous system that sits before the personality circuits in the brain, and CAN act in an animal fashion even if the 'intelligent' part is compromised.

They're 'Chicken running around without it's head' situations, if you will.