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JOHN C. LILLY, M. D.
Programming and Metaprogramming in THE HUMAN PUTER
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed puters.
None of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our
programs, nothing more, nothing less.
Despite the great varieties of programs available, most of us have a limited set of programs. Some of
these are built in. In the simpler forms of life the programs were mostly built in from ic codes to
fully formed adultly anisms. The patterns of function, of actionreaction were determined
by necessities of survival, of adaptation to slow environmental changes and of passing on the code to
descendants.
Eventually the cerebral cortex appeared as an expanding new puter controlling the
structurally lower levels of the nervous system, the lower builtin programs. For the first time learning and
its faster adaptation to a rapidly changing environment began to appear. Further, as this new cortex
expanded over several millions of years, a critical size cortex was reached. At this level of structure, a
new capability emerged: learning to learn.
-John C. Lilly. .
Also by John C. Lilly, .
THE MIND OF THE DOLPHIN
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JOHN C
MAN AND THE DOLPHIN
THE CENTER OF THE CYCLONE
JOHN C. LILLY M . D. is a graduate of the California I Institute of Technology and received his
Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942. He has worked extensively in
various research fields of science, including biophysics, neurophysiology, electronics, and
neuroanatomy. Dr. Lilly has done many years of study and research on solitude, isolation, and
confinement and is a qualified psychoanalyst. He spent twelve years working on research on
dolphinhuman relationships munications and two years at Esalen Institute, Big Sur,
California, as a group leader, resident, and