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| Prompt: “Something must have gone awry with the programming. I have no idea where or when we are.” Steven Decker, The Balance of Time Do you think there is programming in our existence and do you ever feel like Steven Decker with all the goings on in this world? ----------- I think, we are programmed through our DNA's, to start with. Genetic code aside, if anything has gone awry, I can't tell if it was due to any booboo on the other types of programming or not; however, our behaviors, ideals, and other tendencies seem to change from century to century and even from decade to decade. So this means to me what programming exists, it is bound to change. Then, in the same vein, isn't it possible that our brains' neurons were programmed by nature and later, they were-and are-subject to some kind of a revision programming? I am quite sure that we all were born with some innate reflexes and instincts, until learned behaviors set in and changed all those. Here enters our social and psychological or, if you will, socio-psychological conditioning, in addition to biological, and neurological tendencies. This conditioning, in time, affects our offspring's neurons or even the DNA. Does this mean we have a cultural software built in? I tend to think so; however, as deeply embedded as that software maybe, we human beings also possess something called the free will. Plus, some or rather very few of us become astute enough to recognize our own programming, and then, if it doesn't serve us, we deliberately alter it. Changing the ways of life, ideas, beliefs. and religions come to mind, here. Then, unfortunately, most people are not aware that they have the capacity to change their programming and they end up staying enslaved to what was put into them, especially by the parents and the societies they are born into. I seriously think that is how and why we have wars. With wars and disagreements, I don't want to name any actual sides or groups, here. So, for example, let's just say purple people are programmed to look down upon or even hate the magenta people for any outward reason. Then, any little thing the magenta people do, irks the heck out of the purple people. So, with the slightest provocation, they go at the magenta with huge armies and bombs, and of course, they get a similar response from the magenta people because the magenta people also think that, surely, magenta are the better ones by nature's or even by God's decree. With or without wars, groups, nations, etc., programming is a layered construct in its essence. In addition to being a poetic metaphor and a scientific concept, it shows up as a testament to --or a curse-- what programming really subtracts from or adds to our survival as human beings. |
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