The Human Operating System - Part II
Today: Get to know a little about where operating systems come from - computer operating systems are the latest and greatest models for using our own nervous systems and they're the foundation for our personal human operating systems.
Here are the pieces most relevant to this conversation:
(Quoted from Wikipedia)
"In computing, an operating system (aka, OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. Additionally, it provides a foundation upon which to run application software such as word processing programs, web browsers and others."
In humans, a human operating system (aka, HOS) is the system software responsible for direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. In the case of humans, the software responsible for control and management functions is also hardware, i.e. the central nervous system.
The HOS runs all the functions of life, keeping your heart beating, your lungs breathing, and millions of other functions we rely on daily to live. It coordinates and runs both voluntary and involuntary processes. It runs all processes whether we're aware of them or not.
The use of the HOS model is that it gives us an effective way of understanding, tracking, organizing, and directing all of our behaviors be they voluntary or involuntary. It also provides universal systems to communicate and program our nervous systems and experiences of the world. Like its computer counterparts, it offers the opportunity to community-develop more effective systems of information processing and all the benefits that come along with that.
Here are the pieces most relevant to this conversation:
(Quoted from Wikipedia)
"In computing, an operating system (aka, OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. Additionally, it provides a foundation upon which to run application software such as word processing programs, web browsers and others."
In humans, a human operating system (aka, HOS) is the system software responsible for direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. In the case of humans, the software responsible for control and management functions is also hardware, i.e. the central nervous system.
The HOS runs all the functions of life, keeping your heart beating, your lungs breathing, and millions of other functions we rely on daily to live. It coordinates and runs both voluntary and involuntary processes. It runs all processes whether we're aware of them or not.
The use of the HOS model is that it gives us an effective way of understanding, tracking, organizing, and directing all of our behaviors be they voluntary or involuntary. It also provides universal systems to communicate and program our nervous systems and experiences of the world. Like its computer counterparts, it offers the opportunity to community-develop more effective systems of information processing and all the benefits that come along with that.
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