If-Then-Else

On the Matter of Dormant Sub-Routines

Is physical reality, as we each sense it, reducible to the linear interaction of static neurological innateness and previous socialization? On the other hand, might there be something potentially more dynamic and elastic at work? Might the brain eschew creating new operational programming by which to accommodate transition and transformation in favor of awakening dormant operational sub-routines in response to the proper sequence of keystrokes? It certainly seems an elegant and more economical ordering of machine language than the notion that the brain assembles, out of whole cloth, operational instructions that exist, largely undecipherable, at the level of the sub-conscious.

The science of neurology posits that humans possess complex and idiosyncratic brain-body maps by which we each experience the threshold of where our consciousness ends and the world of the tangible, as represented by our physical bodies, begins. In effect, we know to recognize our physical form by what our brain-body map feeds back. Our sentience expects to “see” certain physical realities represented in our bodies. Do each of us possess only one brain-body map or does our complex programming consist of many overlapping and dynamically interactive schematics? How many of these operational schematics are active at any time and how many lay dormant?

Is it as simple as the fundamental programming sentence – If Then?

The If-Then statement is the most basic of all the control flow statements. It tells your operating system to execute a certain section of code only if a particular test evaluates to true.

On the other hand, the If-Then-Else statement provides a secondary path of execution when an "if" clause evaluates to false

The Else in my case was the order that my operating system executed to initiate a whole-systems wide reconfiguration. Not only would the software be upgraded but also the box in which the computer existed would never look the same again.


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