If computers and phones and other electronics are programmed to follow codes and don’t have a conscious to think freely. How do they end up crashing and what causes them to do a task they’ve done hundreds of times before, wrong?

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If computers and phones and other electronics are programmed to follow codes and don’t have a conscious to think freely. How do they end up crashing and what causes them to do a task they’ve done hundreds of times before, wrong?

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If it truly is exactly the same task, then, hardware malfunction aside, it won’t fail. But it probably won’t be. Something will have changed. Maybe a file it requires to do this job has been deleted, so now it can’t do the task because the file is gone.