I really did not understand what John was talking about at first. The methods that he is working with are evidently very different from mine. Then when I tried to think about how I might write a program to have a sense-of-self when being creative I could not really figure it out. But I finally got it. A program cannot notice every detail of what happens in the IO data environment, but when it does it should tag the observation with some sort of simple mark to signify that the event was noticed in the IO environment. But, when it takes some action of its own, especially when it tries to use imagination to solve a problem, the imaginative action should be tagged differently. The imagined event or the conjectured relation should be tagged that it was something that the program created. These simple meta-tags would not be as important in a habitual response and they could be discarded as soon as they were used. The important thing in a unconscious or semi-conscious animal habit is that it is effective. However, when a person first starts to think about what he is doing when he reacts with a well practiced habit he starts trying to identify the steps he takes. That is why (in this conjecture) why you have to actually try doing something that you do so well that you don't even have to think about in order to understand what it is that you are doing in a way that will allow you to explain it to another person. So any internal action, or at least any internal action that involves some creativity, should be tagged differently than an event that was observed in the data environment. A well practiced habitual response would be tagged at a higher level, but the individual steps taken might be discarded as soon as they were used. Jim Bromer
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