Very Large Scale Integration

VLSI Design- a subject i had looked forward to learning, until 10:45 a.m of December 4th, 2008. I had never before spent the entire 1 hr of any class doing everything other than listening to the lecture. This was followed by vapid lectures thrice a week on the various ways to torture a poor substance called silicon and to make the tormented substrate work wonders for the nerds who will never be satisfied with the amount of congestion they create on a thin wafer and who always need to tuck in a million more of elements in about one-eighth of a millimetre.
But now, as I am about to face the first of the three catastrophes that crop up each semester without fail in the name of internals, I am forced to look into my notes to grasp the gist of everything (so that I too can become a torturer-of-the-poor-silicon one day)..
Alas! I find only the remains, of the various games played during class-hours, among the weirdly-torn last few pages of the note. But I am not at a great loss.. With a friend's advice, i have borrowed a library book that will enlighten me on the torture-processes. But being the harmless soul that I am(!!), I find it impossible to comprehend those brutal techniques used to cause so much pain to that poor old non-speaking element.
Thus deciding to abandon the tactfully-obtained library book, I plunged into a deep (deeper than the sensex today ) thought process, questioning, like every other student, the sanity of the person(s) who invented all these strange concepts and contraptions based on them.
Thinking out of the domains of an engineer and venturing into the areas of a philosopher, i find that the human mind is the best ever example of any Very/Ultra Large Scale Integration. The human skull houses the fastest device on earth, which can store a zillion thoughts in a not-so-huge memory element, commonly called the BRAIN, weighing a little bit over 1kg!!
Human beings are the most complex of all species. One silicon substrate may not be non-identical to another, but no two humans can ever be exactly alike, in every aspect. To think of the various ideas that cross my mind in a span of one minute! Damn all Moore's laws of doubling of number of elements per 18 months! There cannot be any silicon or germanium chip which can have so many conflicting elements in one place and still remain acceptably stable.
Wow!! We must have been harder to be manufactured than any silicon chip!! And thank heavens for I do not have to study that, in the place of the VLSI of silicon.