If I were an ecologist or a biochemist, I may have killed myself with curiousness. It’s not unlikely that won’t happen anyway. I do not believe that what we know of evolution is complete. There is enough proof to believe that evolution as we know it happened. I find it hard to believe that it was not guided by means other than natural selection, the environment and society.
My friends are ecologists, bioinformaticians, doctors. Of course I bear them with my thoughts. Some of them won’t let themselves see there may be more to learn. Some are moderate. Others think we were seeded by aliens — screw the professor who says large strands of DNA have no meaning due to evolution; his perceptions are based on known fact anyway. Then there’s the suggested reading list of what other people think — one asked me to read The Blind Watchmaker — I am engrossed.
In school, I was taught the differences between living and non-living things. Those differences don’t apply today. Strangely, I can’t think of any new valid ones. Living things have feelings? Living things grow and die? Living things are made of cells?
I used to break new toys to see what was inside. In school, I would disassemble large sections of assembly code, just to know how programs worked. Programming is every part of me. From small effect to extremely complex architectures. In the future, there appears to be another generation rapidly approaching. We are evolving from using mechanics to electronics to biochemistry. By the way, AI is not dead. It is just an ill-implemented concept. We have always tried to emulate intelligence — tried to copy. Maybe that’s why we call it AI. Heck soon it’ll be impossible to differentiate what is artificial and what is natural. After all, they are relative terms. Machines may not take over the world — mechanical, electronic, or biological. The human mind is an incredible control freak.
About 2 weeks ago, we watched the movie The Matrix Reloaded. It sucked. The talk by the architect in God’s attire made my head open and my mind flowed out. I lost the story. I don’t know why the geeks are rejoicing over Trinity’s use of Nmap. The movie is disgraceful. Compositing in the clones attack and CG in parts of the freeway scene — where Trinity rides avoiding traffic — were nicely done. I also saw John Lennon at Scuzzi that evening.
Last week, in another crappy movie called Equilibrium, there was a passage which goes like this: “But I being poor.. I have only my dreams. I’ve spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly.. because you tread on my dreams.”
Women are strange, strange, fun, strange. My teachers are getting funnier 
Ma, if you are reading this — I am still learning and having a good time.
Love you all.
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