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Can a monitor be a window? Why not?

On one side of the room was the window overlooking Jill's garden. On the other, the AOC 22" monitor showing the live "view from my window" stream that Jill had set up. Jill herself stood between them, trying to remember which was the window and which was the monitor.

A thought occurred to her: If they both displayed the same exact thing, and they both looked just as clear and crisp, was there any real difference? Window. Monitor. They were just words, after all. She could choose to look out whichever one she wanted to. But which one?

Jill took a dime from her pocket and flipped it. Heads for the window/monitor on her left, tails for the window/monitor on her right.

She caught the dime and slapped it against her wrist. Heads.

Jill sipped her coffee gazed out onto her garden. "It looks beautiful this time of year," she thought, "Although, I don't remember planting that error message."

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