Computer and the Brain- Genius and Insane

We are nothing more and nothing less than the information stored in our brain and our brain itself. Our knowledge is data run through a processor chip. Your brain is that processor. Some people have higher grade processors than others. Some will last longer; others will degrade slower. But every brain does the same job. Your genes are the rules by which your processor runs. Your emotions give priority to certain tendancies and presidence to certain reactions. Each and every person is configured differently, thus each and every person is different, but each and every one is an important part of the greaterverse.

The greaterverse is not real. It is a concept solely devised to group together like actions. It is the compilation of all action, interaction and the causes and results of said actions and interactions. It is the "1's" and "0's" of the program of our lives as it runs through our brain. But we must remember not to confuse our brain with a computer, for they, though they preform many of the same actions, do not maintain data in the same fashion. Indeed, the brain can sometimes work against its host based on the rules of its operation and too can a computer, both because we've misplaced the owner's manual.

The brain stores information based on necessity or emotional provocation. You won't remember something that is truly unremarkable and you don't have to or forget to have to. Computers store information that the host deems important, those that have necessity or emotional value.

We must see that the brain fails us more often than the computer. Why? Because our brains are far more complex than a computer. They work off different rules. If you want to remember something, there is no save button for guarenteed success.

The computer and the brain are alike in different ways as well. If I save a file on my computer it is quite possible for someone to change its contents before I view it again. Maybe I have a dozen files, or 140, or a thousand. How can we be sure that the file that we left is the same as the file that we reopen at a later time? Likewise, how can we be sure that a memory, taken and saved at a particular time, won't be altered by our actions and interactions before we open it again? It's impossible to keep track.

Then we come to the matter of what to believe and too we have a similiarity. We cannot know what to believe. Our minds and computers alike play us for fools. What is reality? Reality is what we think it is presently. It is ever changing and ever elusive. It is ever different to each of us. What is truth but what we make it? It is just that and nothing more. Truth is just information whose story is told through the lens of reality, which is ever fluid. So then I pose one final query: What difference does it make to you?

My Name is Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and I am Your King

My name is Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and I am your King.

• To be my follower you must renounce all other authority.
• To be my follower you must recant the teachings of secularists.
• To be my follower you must believe that I am good and all else is bad.
• To be my follower you must reject empirical thought, as my word is law.

• My word is infallible.
• My word is eternal and everlasting.
• My word is the only authority.
• My word is sacred.
• My word is to be revered as are those who speak it.

• Those who speak against me are heretics.
• Those who deny my teachings are blasphemous.
• Those who forgo my lessons will be killed.
• Those who spread my word will be rewarded.
• Those who die for my cause will be exalted.
• Those who follow my instruction unquestionably will be saved.

• Saved are those who follow in my footsteps.
• Saved are those who cover their bodies.
• Saved are those who drink not from false prophets.
• Saved are those who defend the traditions of my nation.
• Saved are those who pray for my divine grace.
• Saved are those who denounce the idols of the western world.
• Saved are those who kill in my name.

My name is Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and I am your King.

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Now replace Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's name with God and reread this passage. Fun huh?

(Same-Sex) Marriage Versus Civil Unions

I have only one thing to say about this argument.

Separate by equal is inherently unequal.

Sound familiar?

Rantings of a Mad Man Part XIII: Unlucky Thinkings

This is the thirteenth installment of the Rantings of a Mad Man Series, and being said part, I figured nothing would be as fitting as an essay on unluckiness and eccentricities.

For instance, the number "13" is unlucky because Judas would be the 13th Apostle. And we all know how well that supposedly turned out. Though on closer inspection, I would think it would be the luckiest number of all. After all without his betrayal, man wouldn't be allowed into Heaven, right? Well, that's how the story goes at any rate. And maybe I'll start believing it when the Church stops asking for money and opens up the decaying Vatican Archives to the public. Meh, it'll never happen; I'm safe.

Broken mirrors cause bad luck? Well I suppose this comes from some base root of the Amish not liking their photo taken, as they believe it steals their soul. Break the mirror, destroy your soul. Now THAT is worth bad luck. Well, if it were real.

Opening an umbrella in the house. Well this is just common sense. I know someone sometime as a child opened an umbrella in the house and poked their younger brother or sister in the eye. They went crying to mommy and then both you and the rest of the world were never allowed to live the one incident down.

Cross the path of a black cat. Hmm... I'm sensing racism. How about you?

Step on a crack, break your mother's back (or fall and break your back). As for the prior, I see this as a mother's over-mothering guilt trip. Leave your damn kids alone for fuck's sake. The latter I see coming from an anal retentive little pre-Madonna channeling his mother who's got him so twisted around her finger that the world revolves around making her happy no matter the cost. Hmm... Freud would love that answer.

(Speaking of anal retentive.... What is the technical term for someone who's constipated?)

What's so wrong about wearing white after Labor Day? Afraid you're gonna blend in with the snow and get hit by oncoming traffic?

"Wear a hat or you'll catch pneumonia" said your mom. Did you EVER actually catch pneumonia?

Sex by the Billing's Method? You've gotta be kidding me. No wonder you had a little sister.

Don't scream in Church? Come on! Have you ever heard the echo? The reverberation of the Church bells? The simultaneous turning of three dozen heads? The look on the priest's face after you've shouted out "pecker tracks" in the middle of his sermon?

Why do we speak closer, slower, and louder to old people. They're old not stupid.

Why do we press harder on remote control buttons when the batteries are dying?

Why do people think that a gay couple will raise inherently gay children? If this were the case, so too would be the reverse. A straight couple would only raise straight children. How then did this all come about in the first place?

If a bottle of juice only has 10% juice, what's the rest of it?

Why do they caffeinate coffee and soda just to decaffeinate it again using harmful chemicals?

The only sanctioned way to get rid of holy statues is to bury them. Pft, I've got a hammer, give me six seconds to find my gloves.

What is the Mormon take on adultery?

Harry Potter is a sinful work. Really? Then why don't you ban it so everyone will read it.

Money for sex is illegal but money for a prostate exam is mandatory? C'mon! What, is it the MD? Get Hugh Hefner to create a college program for prostitutes already! At least during that exam you won't feel embarrassed about getting wood.

And... What is it with baseball players and superstitions? Come on now, do you really think that tapping the plate three times, crossing yourself, adjusting your gloves, spitting on your gloved hands, rubbing them together six times in a counter-clockwise fashion, waving the bat twice in circles over your left shoulder and then your right will actually increase your chances of hitting the ball? I say that trying to remember to do all that, then worrying about forgetting something, going back and starting over again, and choking under pressure, will just make you hit less. Or maybe it'll get the pitcher to hit you more. Either way, I'm a supporter of that.