As always a great read. Interesting how you introduce concepts such as programming and the ego. It's easy to see you derive all that from a variety of sources. Ego from eastern religion, and programming from science, and who knows, even scientology. Although science has recently achieved some conclusions in how our brain doesn't work as a computer at all.
In any instance, it's always a pleasure to read what you write.
Yes, I don't mean to suggest that our brain literally works like a computer. I only intend the computer and "programming" reference as an analogy, and hopefully one that most here will grasp.
I imagined not. Although that's a current popular view.
Yeah, seems likely. Given all of us are programmed, one way or another, since our very first years... both by external factors as by what we infer is the best course of action, or at least the one that gets some kind of results. Even the baby that cries only when someone's watching or trying that someone does, grabbing for attention.
Can you give us a reference? I am not aware of any such conclusions.