Gratitude for the Brain

 I've decided I'm going to use the term [thinking engine] for [computer] henceforth.
 I remembered you run around with a thinking engine atop your shoulders all the time. It's not just any thinking engine either. Do you understand how expensive it would be to make a silicon thinking engine with the full capacities of the human brain? Trillions of dollars. Perhaps hundreds of trillions.

 You have a trillion-dollar piece of hardware upstairs. Isn't that cool? That's fucking cool. 

 Oh and it runs on 20 watts. lol
 When a cartoon lightbulb flashes to symbolize insight, it uses more power than the brain having the insight.
 Admittedly the parts are expensive. If you want to make e.g. seaweed (for iodine) in a lab, you're looking at tens of millions of dollars per pound. Luckily Gaia will make that shit for you...

 Making a whole brain is a little expensive, maybe $200,000 in continental prices, but considering the machine is worth trillions of dollars, I would say that's a pretty damn good deal. Somewhat profitable, you might say.

 

 When scientists can make trillion-dollar thinking engines using a million dollars of parts and labour that run on less than 20 watts, I will admit they may possibly have a chance of being smarter than evolution. Until then, evolution is smarter than you. Yes, you can tell the tailbone shouldn't exist and evolution hasn't figured it out yet, but you can't make even a mistaken tailbone in the first place. How many new species have you engineered? Saying what to fix without knowing how to fix it is worse than useless. Maybe start with gram-positive bacteria, then work up, yes? 

 

 This is why you should do your reps. Don't leave trillions of dollars of value on the table. Maximize the potential of this insane piece of kit.
 Like sure maybe the untrained don't have trillion-dollar assets boxed in bone, but I sure as fuck do. And heck yeah it's awesome.