WOW, MY PROFUNDITY BIAS is probably extremely prevalent. As I stated earlier, this is the bias that intellectual's and myself have wherein we confuse terminology and complexify ideas so as to creat an aura of the "profound" over ideas.

Many of the ideas that I have, if I started looking over them, could likely be reduced down to simple common-sense lines.

My environment encourages this bias. Academia is constantly in search of the next good paper; my parents hope that I am smart; and elders want to encourage creativity in the youth. It's only my friends and peers who are actually skeptical about my ideas. I'm unsure, though as to what percentage of that skepticism is motivated by competitiveness or insecurity.

Either way, I should pick up Occam's Razor and slice open some brain matter; consider it like defragmenting your brain-harddrive.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMPUTER VIRUSES and real viruses is in some ways getting blurred.

On campus, hundreds of computers are being infected by cleverly worded e-mails with evil attachments. Every user of this computer loses some work or time which causes anguish. This anguish then releases acetocholine and other nasty neurotransmitters in the brain, which then bring about physical ailments.

Compare this to biological viruses, like the cold. This too takes up your time, diminishes your productivity, and also causes anguish.

My profundity bias makes me think this is interesting because mankind is starting to take computer viruses as seriously as they take biological viruses. This shows a glimmer of the Singularity. In the future, we will eventually be in the Matrix and we'll be concerned primarily with computer viruses.

What is the virus that we are concerned with? Any object that travels across a network and causes anguish in proportion to the number of nodes affected.

Mind viruses, computer viruses, biological viruses, etc..