No it won't. Stop deluding yourself. Your body doesn't just magically break things down. It often times can't even use stuff unless they are in a proper compound form. There is a reason why plastics straws can last 200+ years. Cause bacteria can't digest it and it is up to the elements. If bacteria can't digest it, why do you think you can? It's even been proven with nutrients, that in some forms, the human body doesn't digest it at all.
food is something that if you don't ingest, then you get weak and die. so no, pc is not food, you won't die if you don't have access for it for a week, or a month.
If it hurts your body more than it helps, it is not food. If it does not give you more energy than you spent to break it down, it is not food. If your body can't break it down into energy/nutrients, it also is not food. Computers, poison and grass do not count for the above reasons.
If you were to pulverize the computer (and you'd most definitely need to physically break it into smaller pieces to even be able to get it into your mouth and swallow it regardless) I wouldn't surprised if at least something could be digested and absorbed and used by the body, thereby providing nutrition. So presumably, if you could filter those parts out and mostly consume just them, then you could say you ate a portion (although probably very small) of a computer and it would give you some nutrition. The actual pre-processed computer still isn't food or edible though Also, unlike what a lot of other people saying in this thread, something that's poisonous, toxic, or harmful to the human body can still be food so long as it provides nutritional value, though obviously it should be more beneficial than harmful or there would generally be worse to have eaten it than not (though it could still have some niche uses I suppose). In fact most foods have toxic substances, especially things like crops because of pesticides etc., but even Raw completely Organic etc. foods can have anti-nutrients (basically all plants have these, especially seeds/nuts which), but again, you're generally at least getting macro nutrients for energy. Also, a lot of foods aren't edible in their Raw state, but they're edible after processing. e.g. cooking, fermenting, and what not. And even foods that are edible but have a lot of anti-nutrients and/or toxins can have those removed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinutrient#Occurrence_and_removal Many traditional methods of food preparation such as germination, fermentation, cooking, and malting increase the nutritive quality of plant foods through reducing certain antinutrients such as phytic acid, polyphenols, and oxalic acid. Such processing methods are widely used in societies where cereals and legumes form a major part of the diet. An important example of such processing is the fermentation of cassava to produce cassava flour: this fermentation reduces the levels of both toxins and antinutrients in the tuber.
What can I say except~ Food is life, food is love. That's the reason, Joey doesn't share his food too.
Personally, I would say food is whatever that tastes good in my mouth, can help me get rid of hunger, and hopefully doesn't kill me
I believe you have a misunderstaniding, is not any chemical that can give you nutrients, the same way that while humans do eat things like some non-organic chemicals more common in the salt and are used as important nutrients, there are organic chemicals that humans can't eat at all. The kind of chemicals that are nutrients only exist in very specific forms that can be broken by either the enzyme of your mouth, stomach acid or bacteria of your stomach. Things are while may be presented in a way or another in a computer, if you just bite a motherboard for exemple, you would most likely be unable to absorb any nutrient, because one of the effects of the toxins is to stop or/and break the transport and production of the normal human body processing. A more interesting idea however, is how you define a computer. After all what is a computer in the first place, can a group of ants that perform a certain task after the right combination of chemical reaction are input also be considered a type of computer?
They can be considered a computer. Also, if you break down the computer and eat the small ounce of it that will give you nutrients, you —in technicality — did eat the computer....
You may want to reconsider that 2nd statement because it can easely grow wild. For by that logic if you eat something that share the same components to other thing you "technicality" also eat it. And you fall on a problem close to the ship of theseus where when you start to take the whole for it components you can't distinguish when it still part of the original whole or a new thing. In theory we all change all ours cells(including bone and brain) after a few years and absorbe elements that once was inside a variety of people, animals and things, if that the case would also be considered eating? after all we one way or another injested this molecules and used it to form our present image. If you want to keep the food theme is the same idea of if a person that has eaten bread and meat in form of a hotdog would also technicality also had eaten a meat sandwich( bread + meat). If you apply to the computer, if you eat small amounts of plastic, metal and etc... would also count as have eatean a computer? but so many things are made of the same materials that someone trying to guess what was the original object wouldn't be able to narrow down to 100 different itens. In the same way that news of a dude that has eaten a plane by cutting very small pieces of it everyday for 2 years However, curious enough I rememebr reading something about someone that was able to absorb some iron from licking iron nails(he sucked it like a lolipop because he liked the taste of iron) so is possible that the could absorbe some nutrients from eating a computer board. But you would get more by eating some biological one like human brain. Well you know what they say, "Every mushroom is edible… once"