holy crap! thats some read.
makes you wonder, what if we are the biological machines, created for the purpose of storing and spreading ideas - thoughts, skills, opinions.
so what happens to us when we build a synthetic (better?) enviroment for these ideas to live on...........im scared, someone hold me..........

i think that game black and white mimics a brains synaptic pathways, for teaching your creature things like differences between good and bad, on a far less grand scale of course, but nonetheless is doing it.