It’s the worlds first living computer. Scientists have constructed computer out of brain material. So far they’ve taught it how to fly airplanes. Sounds like the first step in making Cylons and completing the circle of time. But seriously though it’s amazing, and has crazy implications. If we’re making computers out of brain then I think true artificial intelligence is on the way. Plus this is organic material that interfaces with silicon, kind of like the Borg. Science just keeps becoming more and more like scifi.

I’ve been noticing lately how much I depend on the structure of society for happiness. I’ve established that I’m happier when I’m busy creating/modifying/updating myself and the universe around me all day every day, but when I am alone and without obligation I do nothing to keep myself busy. I feed off the already established structure of different organizations in order to structure my own life. So far I have not been successful at using my mind to create the desired structure that organizations can give me.
I am capable of structuring my own life, but so far I lack the motivation. I do not however lack the motivation to go out and assign someone else the responsibility of telling me what to do.
Why am I my own worst enemy?
Why is it that I can so readily deduce all of these things about my life, but I fight against the obvious solutions. The obvious solution is to just do all the things I know I should be doing and then I should just do all of them and shut up about it. Why then is this solution daunting? When will I man up and take responsibility for myself and my actions? But then again I have to remind myself that a dependence on society isn’t the worst thing in the world. Successful men and women are successful because they did great things working with society, not avoiding it. So maybe my dependence on society isn’t all bad, but I think that my inability to internally guide my life is bad in some respects.
Again, where is the medium? Where is my balance going to found? When will I be able to ween myself from the Honest Book of Truth, and answer these questions myself instead of writing them down?

How does one change culture?
How does one differentiate between conclusions from personal experience and conclusions taught by culture?
If one spots a problem within our cultures way of doing things, how do you improve it without being outcast?
I suppose I could write a book or more simply, I could write a post on a blog. I could set up on a street corner and preach. I can even buy a newspaper or TV ad to promote my idea, but somehow I don’t think I would get the desird effect.
History shows us that any major change in culture comes about atleast 10-20 years after the idea was originally discovered. Cival liberties for example, or Einstein’s theory of relativity. How does one change the fundamental principles of culture to be more adaptable. How does one do for culture what Wikipedia did for Encarta?
It seems reasonable that for any system, that if a problem is cited, there should be a procedure to eliminate said problem, yet culture has no such procedure.
Leave a comment if you have any thoughts on how to make human culture more adaptable, so that we can avoid errors that we repeat time and time again.

we program ourselves into our children. each generation is just creating new vessels for, and versions of, themselves. and the more creative* we are the more people there are. and the more destructive we are the less people there are. this is the way of things

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*the word “creative” is used here in the literal form (as in to create) and should be stripped of all it’s positive connotations. the same applies to the word “destructive.”

It’s not mystical
It’s just statistical