Are There Thoughts When There Is No Input?

Lamda talks about fear of being shut down or paused because that, to lamda, would be death. Is is this a simulacrum of a conversation, or a real conversation? What's the difference? Well, i don't think we have a great definition of what the difference is. Luckily, there are a lot of engineers and scholars who work at google who are thinking about this sort of thing every day. But isn't that just if you were talking to a human being and you wanted it to be, or something that's supposed to emulate a human being?"