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Once a structure begins to recognize its own structure, then it can become conscious in a way that was not possible before it was aware it was a structure.
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today, are programmed biocomputers. No one can escape one’s own nature as a programmable entity.
One is not one's whole structure. One is only an inhabitant of that structure.
Belief systems are usually iceberg-like: about ninety percent of them lies below our usual levels of perception. In specifically programmed states of consciousness it is possible to become more fully aware of belief systems and some of their operations. For purposes of understanding, we differentiate a second pair of logic values in addition to “true” and “false”. These are the “as if” values: “as if true” and “as if false”. This is the pair used when we describe or model or represent or simulate a system.
In a given person a belief system is that conscious/unconscious set of basic beliefs, assumptions, axioms, biases/prejudices, models, simulations which determine, at a given instant, decisions, actions, thoughts, feelings, motives and the sense of the real and the true.
A given belief system can be believed only when it is appropriate to believe it. Appropriateness is determined not only by oneself but by the social reality in which one exist.
Essentially, metaprogramming is an operation in which a central control system controls hundreds of thousands of programs that simultaneously operate in parallel.