Adaptive-organic supercomputer software

(Loosely based on a conversation between Tristan Miller and Joshua Clark)

The point is, humans are robots, we just have very advanced, adaptive-organic supercomputers in our heads. Most people seem unwilling to upgrade from the psychological equivalent of DOS v1.0 - which is perhaps why shopping and consuming is so in vogue, all of the time.

This software gives their body the misleading instruction to trust the Cathode God (what Sam Miller calls TV). In doing so, these humans waste their amazing adaptive hardware on storing advertising jingles and misinformation without routing it to a critical analysis centre first. The result is an army of unquestioning robots that will buy lots of things that they have no real need for: they become conformatrons.

A software upgrade is really just a metaphor for a shift in one's way of thinking. If the shift is remarkable enough, the human may be forced to reconsider many of their usual thought and behaviour patterns, and the necessary changes can cause quite an upheaval. The extent of the transformation can be represented by the increment attached to the version number of their adaptive-organic supercomputer software. Thus a small tweak will result in say 1.0 upgrading to 1.0.1, whereas a complete epiphany or mystical/religious experience may in fact require a full integral increment in the version number, i.e. 1.0 upgrading to 2.0.

Sometimes the transition is not so smooth. Thus it is advisable to identify the need for an upgrade before it just happens, and engage close humans in a compliance programme so they do not flip out at what appears to be your new brain.

Enjoy.