Human biocomputer

Psychological structures have individual characteristics that limit and shape the ways in which they can interact with one another. Thus the possibilities of any system built of psychological structures are shaped and limited both by the deployment of attention/awareness and other energies and by the characteristics of the structures comprising the system. The human biocomputer, in other words, has a large but limited number of possible modes of functioning. 

John Lilly "Each psychedelic drug is quite literally a different access code to a certain circuit of the human biocomputer."... 

Lilly, J. Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer. Miami, FI. Communication Research Institute, 1967. Reprinted by Whole Earth Catalog, Menlo Park, Calif, 1971. 

My systems approach to consciousness appears to differ from Lilly s approach [34, 35] to consciousness as a human biocomputer. I predict that only certain configurations can occur and constitute stable states of consciousness, d-SoCs. Lilly s model seems to treat the mind as a general-purpose computer, capable of being programmed in any way one can conceive of In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within certain limits. Personal conversations between Lilly and I suggest that our positions actually do not differ that much. The phrase "within certain lim important... 

Asai, K., Itou, K Ueno, Y. Yada, T. (1998). Recognition of human genes by stochastic parsing. Pac Symp Biocomput, 228-39. 

Dudley, J. T. and Atul, J. B. 2009. Identification of discriminating biomarkers for human disease using integrative network biology. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 14 27-38. 

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