Human biocomputer
The term human biocomputer, coined by John C. Lilly, refers to the "hardware" of the human anatomy. This would include the brain, internal organs, and other human organ systems such as cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, immune, integumentary, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, skeletal, and urinary systems. The biocomputer has stored program properties, and self-metaprogramming properties, with limits determinable and to be determined.
Parts
The functional organization of the human biocomputer is:| Level | Description | Parts |
| 11 | Above and in biocomputer | unknown |
| 10 | Beyond metaprogramming | supra-species-metaprograms |
| 9 | To be metaprogrammed | supra-self-metaprograms |
| 8 | To metaprogram | self-metaprogram awareness |
| 7 | To program sets of programs | metaprograms metaprogram storage |
| 6 | Detailed instructions | programs program storage |
| 5 | Details of instructions | subroutines subroutine storage |
| 4 | Signs of activity | biochemical activity neural activity glial activity vascular activity |
| 3 | Brain | biochemical brain neural brain glial brain vascular brain |
| 2 | Body | biochemical body sensory body motor body vascular body |
| 1 | External reality | biochemical chemical physical |
General clarification
The levels of the human biocomputer are explained thus:Levels from one to two are the boundaries between external reality and the body. Certain energies and materials pass through this boundary in special places. Levels two to three are the boundaries of body and brain, in which special structures such as blood vessels, nerve fibers, and cerebrospinal fluid pass. Levels four through eleven are in the brain circuitry, and is the software inside the biocomputer. Levels after ten are termed unknown. This is to allow an openness for future scientific research, and discoveries. This is also to illustrate the unwillingness to subscribe to any dogmatic belief, to encourage creative, courageous and imaginative investigation, to emphasize the necessity for unknown factors on all levels, and to point out the heuristic nature of this schema.