While it is true that nothing in nature is perfect there is one being that comes very close... his name is Chip. For many years we scientists have poked, prodded, snipped, clipped, and tested Chip. Careers have been spent trying to isolate that thing... that primordial bubbling dream that makes him so close to the Platonic ideal of everything.
Some have believed that they had come close, very close indeed, to cracking the code, only to find new tangents in their research that destroy any concepts that they might have postulated.
In the last fourteen years no less than 126 papers have been written on the "Chip Phenomenon."
Aziz Ab'Saber of the University of São Paulo, postulates in his 1998 paper,
Chip: Nature's Gift, that Chip may in fact be the next evolution of the universe as a whole and that we stand on the cusp of great changes. The great evolutionary biologist John H. Gillespie told me over cocktails one brisk October evening that he has seen the hand of god at work in the world and it was in the glint in Chip's eyes when he smiled. Steven M. Block of Stanford University just photoshops Chip's head onto various photos during his downtime. He claims this is the closest modern science can come to seeing what a utopia is would be like.
For his part Chip remains humble. He stoically provides whatever science requests of him, never seeming to put out by all the attention put on him. There is a small group of scientists, myself included, who suspect that the answers we seek are already known to one person, the subject himself. However, when he is asked point blank about it he just smiles his disarming smile and elegantly changes the subject.
