I’m done with copyrights. I know, artists need to be compensated for their works yadda yadda yadda, but that’s not even what it’s about anymore. For one thing, they last like 120 years. That’s unfairly long, by then the content creator will most definitely be dead for a long time. Whatever happened to public domain?

As we move into the digital age copyrights will inevitably die. With faster internet connections and bigger hard drives it’s only going to get easier to share information. Total sharing of information is the way of the future and copyrights are holding us back. It’s time that humanity starts focusing on greater objectives than writing a hit song and making a lot of money. The free flow of information is beneficial to all and it’s going to happen not matter how much copyright holders bitch and moan.

Will this new era usher in a change of the status quo? Of course it will, but that’s not a bad thing. Money is a meaningless symbol that confuses the fuck out of people. It puts artificial value on things. It misdirects people away from their true value. The owning of information is an antiquated idea, we should have left it in the 20th century where it belongs. This in the century of free information, of expanding horizons. Technology and the human desire to not pay for things will force it upon us weather we like it or not.

Oh, and don’t republish this article lest I sue your ass! I needs me some monies, the Professor has needs!

Curiosity is an interesting emotion (is it an emotion?). First of all I wonder where we would be without it. My guess is a lot less technologically advanced. Perhaps still in the ocean. Was the act of crawling out of the sea an act of curiosity? Was the first amoeba splitting because it wanted to see what would happen when it did? It makes me wonder, when an amoeba splits, which of the resulting two is the original.

Besides all that meaningless pondering, I wonder where curiosity is leading us. Are we walking a definite path? Possibly, since we live in this universe and since curiosity is the drive to uncover the secrets of this universe then perhaps there is only one end and that is total and complete understanding of this reality, which in itself (I suspect) would be a new beginning. On the other hand there may be no definitive end to what one can know about this universe. It is an unimaginably enormous place and to think that one species can possibly comprehend it all can seem laughable.

Either way this trip is certainly not lacking in uniqueness or fascination, so I say we just sit back and enjoy the ride.

What do we classify as natural, and what do we classify as man-made?
Zoloft’s elements all come from the earth and were all put together using tools which all come from elements of the earth. Is it natural to take a pill and disturb your hormone grid? When do human actions beget nature and when do they beget something man-made? In enough time, the elements of Zoloft could have come together and created a “natural” substance to affect hormones, wo why when humans rush the process is it no longer natural?
Man has the ability to affect nature and is himself nature, so what the fuck is man-made? I don’t see anything unnatural about nature reacting with nature.
The difference may seem arbitrary, but I think the distinction has a lot to do with how people view something. It is my impression that man gives priority to the natural.
What about unnatural sex acts? Some people get off only after beating up their mate. How about necrophiliacs? Banana slugs are hermaphrodites who have pensis’ twice the length of their bodies, and reproduce by nearly strangling eachother to death before ejaculating. All these things can conceivibly be called unnatural, yet they are clearly natural.
What about plastic…I think I can conclude this is unnatural. You use a plastic cup, and you throw it away after using it once, but you forgot that plastic isn’t disposible. That cup you nearsidedly destined to the dump, will still be sitting there for time. Surely this is unnatural. Nature is a cycle, I am a cycle. Is plastic a cycle? Probably is.
I’m too stoned to continue.

We are computers.

Advanced, complex, evolved computers with programs that learn and interpret. Well oiled machines that have functioned pretty well for the past 10,000 years or so. Its hard to think of a human or a being of any sort as a machine but if we look at the constituent parts its hard not to make the comparison. Or bodies are organized so that no one part has to preform every task necessary to its survival but rather every part contributes something to the larger function of our bodies in the world, no matter what it is.

Every function of our brains is part of a complex, ever changing program. As we ask more and more questions about ourselves we begin to understand overreaching concepts as to how our brains function, how we react to certain familiar situations, how we feel towards certain types of people, what makes us laugh. As we grow older we begin to know our own program as realize how it came to be the way it is today. Despite its arcane complexity the human brain still is a program and one that can be deciphered. There is a program for love, hate, jealousy, joy, faith, and laziness waiting to be deciphered.

Humans with all their ingenuity cannot be blamed for not deciphering millions of years of evolution, but with the constant exponential expansion of the world’s knowledge base we cannot deny that we will eventually figure out the intricacies of the human being. The knowledge is out there somewhere, the secret lies hidden somewhere, and it begins with one person’s need to find out more.

Scientists have created mice that can regenerate organs and amputated limbs. They can regenerate everything but the brain apparently. I suppose this could be the future of humans. Now I hear you asking, “But professor, I’ve already been built (so to speak) so surely I can’t benefit from this technique?” Wrong! By injecting fetal liver cells from the new and improved mice into plain old mice the plain old mice gained the same abilities. And the genes that are in charge of organ regeneration exist in humans as well. I wonder how long before you can go to the doctor and get an injection that’ll give you this ability. War, car crashes, sports, and reality TV will never be the same.

Watch two poor people cut their own limbs off one by one, the first one to stop is the Chicken! Wednesdays on FOX