Play 318: Electricity On Your Mind, Literally

CHARACTERS
VINCENT, 17
DAN, 17

VINCENT
Know what’s weird to think of?

DAN
What?

VINCENT
That our bodies are electrical and chemical systems.

DAN
I guess that’s a little weird.

VINCENT
I mean, how different does it make our brains than a computer? Both are just series of electrical pulses.

DAN
They’re still pretty different.

VINCENT
How?

DAN
One’s organic and one isn’t.

VINCENT
So what? All that really means is our brains are made of carbon and computers aren’t.

DAN
So?

VINCENT
So why does that matter? Would it matter if you made a part of a computer with a slightly different metal? Technically it’s different, but functionally it doesn’t matter.

DAN
I guess.

VINCENT
And it’s not the brain physically or the computer physically that really matters, it’s mainly the electricity flowing in them.

DAN
I guess.

(Pause.)

VINCENT
It’s just weird to think of electricity as developing naturally.

DAN
I agree with you there.

VINCENT
Or to think that it’s inside our heads.

(Beat.)

DAN
That is really weird.

VINCENT
I know.

(Beat.)

DAN
There’s electricity shooting around inside my head.

VINCENT
Yeah.

DAN
Right now.

VINCENT
Yup.

(Beat.)

DAN
I’ve never really thought of that before.

VINCENT
I hadn’t until I saw this movie that was talking about it a bit ago.

DAN
I always knew it was true, but I never really thought of it like that.

VINCENT
Same.

(Beat.)

VINENT
Weird shit, eh?

DAN
Definitely.

(Blackout.)