how different are we from computers?

more and more i liken us to computers. more and more i see the parallels. discovering my new laptop is like discovering me. hardwired programs, administrator access... you better know what you're doing if you're changing stuff. change it right, things work better - change it wrong, and you can conk up the entire system....

but luckily, you can always re-boot the whole damn thing...

and don't confuse files with system...

back up your files, then it is no problem to re-boot the system.

different user log-on's: a healthy type of schizophrenia? on my own laptop i myself use different user settings - to protect myself from me... from any inadvertent damage i could be doing. (hm...)

and then that whole list of keyboard shortcuts... wow... trigger points. and you better know about those too... fortunately on a computer most of them are not accidentally usable, but in the system of me, they are all open access... single button defaults...

disk-cleanup, defragment: is that what we do when we sleep? and maybe it's an entire system overhaul when we die...

how can we get optimal use out of our hard- and our software? most of us don't know that...

sometimes systems are altered and „improved“ too many times. you come back a “virgin” after every complete re-boot. memory whiped out, clean slate. chance to program everything all over. and just maybe, for the fun of it, we put ourselves into different hands each time around to do the innitial programming.

and good if you know your way well enough around any operating system so you can make informed and intelligent choices as far as alterations and personalisations and improvements go. and how much better even to know how to create programs...

perhaps it is weird to think of people as walking computer programs, but it really isn't that far off. physicians, mental and physical, are also but programmers of these systems. and some things work for most systems, many don't... one pill for all... we like to believe it. one answer, one way... our attempt at making something huge, and hugely complex, into something simple, manageable, overseeable.

but time and again we happen upon those sticky little bubbles that don't wanna work that way... find ourselves in places that don't fit the bill. the os goes into overdrive, overheats eventually, shuts down. or it isolates an area - what's the term i'm looking for? out of bounds? zone blablabla? looking for the name of an area like one that is used for missile testing, or that has stuff on it that nobody must know of. these areas become like pockets in our system, pockets in our lives. sometimes not that well (or not at all) integrated.

at some point the hardware gets affected... "ailments" of sorts develop. from small annoying ones, to total system-crash ones... we don't need pills, we need correct programming, and correct system maintenance. maintenance! crucial! updates!...

and not to forget to delete the old versions before installing new ones... hihi ... and yet, what did i learn the other day? a fraction of any program ever installed remains behind... can never be fully deleted... hm... so it is... and so the system clogs up... starts to slow down... ages...

this is just the kind of thing i love to wrap my mind around. exciting.