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Meta-Programming Circuit

Any of the semantic games assosiated with predictive coding is a synecdoche of the Meta-Programming Circuit. The meta-programming circuit simply represents the brain becoming aware of itself. The artist seeing himself in his painting, seeing himself seeing himself in his painting 
 In the Zen metaphor, it is a mirror that reflects anything, but does not hold onto anything. It is a conscious mirror that knows it can always reflect something else by changing its angle of reflection.

The Meta-Programming Circuit represents cybernetic consciousness; the programmer becoming self-programmer, self-metaprogrammer, meta-meta-programmer, etc. Just as the emotional compulsions of the Emotional-Territorial Circuit seem primitive, mechanical and, ultimately, silly to the Neurosomatic Circuit, so, too, the reality tunnel of the Semantic Circuit become comic, relativistic, game-like to the metaprogrammer.

The meta-programming circuit is the most recent in evolutionary time is associated with the frontal lobes.

and involves further diactivation of the default mode network, leading to the fourth jhana, which then leads to Insight. This is why the traditional Hindu exercize to activate it is to fix the consciousness in the front of the forehead and hold it there. Eventually the metaprogrammer awakes and you begin to perceive and create infinite realities where before there was only one static habitual “reality” in which you were trapped. “Whatever you say it is, it isn’t,” Korzybski, the semanticist, repeated endlessly in his seminars, trying to make clear that third-circuit semantic maps are not the territories they represent; that we can always make maps of our maps, revisions of our revisions, meta-selves of our selves.

this circuit is the “soul” of the Gnostics, as distinct from the self. The self seems to be fixed and firm, but is not; that is, whatever circuit you are operating on at the moment is your “self’ at that moment. If I point a gun at you, you go to Circuit I consciousness at once, and that is your “self’ at that instant. But if you are sexually attracted to somebody, you go to Circuit IV and that is your “self’ until you are orgasmically satisfied (or hopelessly frustrated). Most of the preliminary exercizes in Sufi and Gurdjieff schools consist in making you aware that the “self’ is not constant but shifts back and forth between the imprints on the various circuits. Nibbana or the Meta-programming is constant, because it is void or without form. It plays all the roles you play—oral dependent, emotional tyrant, cool rationalist, romantic seducer, neurosomatic healer, neurogenetic Evolutionary Visionary—but it is none of them. It is plastic. It is without form, because it is all forms. It is the “creative Void” of the Taoists.

“Mind” is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back (without mirrors). Or as because the tongue ultimately cannot taste the tongue.

Ideas about ideas—mathematics about mathematics (Godel)—language about language—consciousness of consciousness—the whole seventh circuit brings us into what Hofstadter calls Strange Loops. Like the legendary ko-ko bird, we follow our own tail around in ever-narrowing circles, but unlike that mythic bird we never complete the process by flying up our own rectums and disappearing. It just seems like we’re about to self-destruct in that colorful way, and we decide that what we have been reading, or thinking, or perceiving, must be “nonsense.” It is not nonsense. We are merely confronting infinity where we least expected to encounter it—in our own lonely selves.

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