| Ahh yes. I really love the idea or mental programs, or self metaprogamming, Human biocomputer, self fulfilling prophecy. They truly run our lives, and sometimes can be drowned out by constant readjustment process, which in itself can be a program. The simplist of these programs is the common habit. Showering routines, or waking up slightly before an alarm goes off. They can be more complex, solving problems spontaneously after focusing on them cognitively for days. Or simple and short term visualization programs that can be ran over a congruent conscious moment with a little mindfulness training -- each little intent of cognition adjusting what's being imagined. The mechanism behind the muse, or meaningful dream. PTSD, shyness, suddenly feeling sad, or happy. Magical thinking, or the depressive voice constantly trying to find a new adjustment to fix things. Computers in our head are everything. Not really computers in the classic sense, nor programs, but programs and program factories at the same time. Sometimes little programs with hooks to bail us out of other programs that may do us harm. Wild stuff. |