The human brain is a miracle. We only use a small percentage of it but it makes us one of the most intelligent creatures on the planet. That and our opposable thumbs makes us number 1.
However the primitive brain which controls many of our automatic responses is read only. It doesn’t seem interested at in in being overridden or ‘patched’. We just cannot control it. It’s the equivalent of the BIOS in a PC. It is used to load up the main OS which we use to perform all our thinking and processing and is used as a preprocessor for many basic functions.
Unfortunately it is buggy and even worse it just can’t be patched. So we are able to trick our minds.
See here for some ways that we can fool our mind. Even when we know what is going on and how it works we can’t override our thought processes.
Of course it could be worse. We could be running Vista.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. — Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982)
Flaky BIOS
The human brain is a miracle. We only use a small percentage of it but it makes us one of the most intelligent creatures on the planet. That and our opposable thumbs makes us number 1.
However the primitive brain which controls many of our automatic responses is read only. It doesn’t seem interested at in in being overridden or ‘patched’. We just cannot control it. It’s the equivalent of the BIOS in a PC. It is used to load up the main OS which we use to perform all our thinking and processing and is used as a preprocessor for many basic functions.
Unfortunately it is buggy and even worse it just can’t be patched. So we are able to trick our minds.
See here for some ways that we can fool our mind. Even when we know what is going on and how it works we can’t override our thought processes.
Of course it could be worse. We could be running Vista.