Software
by Steve BreitenbachApril 20, 2017
A program is a carefully reasoned series of steps to accomplish an end result. Imagine, if you will, that you are reading a program. Imagine that the desired end result is the implantation of a certain idea in the machine: your mind.
There are many techniques for programming the human mind. Aristotle called them "rhetoric" in his book on persuasion. Some of them are known as "propaganda." Some are more subtle, psychological. Here's a good example: the human mind does not process negatives.
Thought: You are not an organic computer to be programmed.
About Steve Breitenbach
Steve writes fiction in the space between his day job writing software (with a lower-case s :) and time with his family as husband to Kristin and dad to toddler Valkyrie. He calls San Diego home, but you can also find him online at nootropia.xyz writing about states of consciousness and the relationship between humans, their technology, and each other.
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