humans are indeed basically computers. but, we're not like the simple computers that we created when we first started messing around with programs.

to begin with, we're quantum computers. second, we're capable of machine learning - we're a complicated ai, not a linear code, or a recursive functional program.

so, when i talk about pavlovian conditioning, that doesn't exactly bring in a concept of free choice. we're still being programmed, but we're being programmed by the universe as it exists, in real time, rather than sprouting from some detailed instructions.

dna codes for proteins, which means it determines how the mechanics of our biology operates. and, it fucks this up. all of the time. look at all the diabetics. and, what is evolution? it's a function of errors in transcription. if you're imagining dna as this perfect set of instructions, that's completely flawed - it's haphazard and error-prone.

and, it simply doesn't code for actual behaviour - it just produces the conditions to allow for the universe to actually program us, as a reaction to stimuli in real-time.

and, as we evolve, it will be to become more reactive, more adaptive, not less so.