The science of habits

The state of our knowledge of human habitual behavior is in pre-scientific state. Habits are still associated with organs. To define habit as a function of an organ is like associating the heart with feelings and claim to have understood its function.

People also use the word "mind" to explain behavior. Then they divide the mind into two sections: conscious and unconscious.

95 percent of human behavior is controlled by the unconscious mind

The unconscious mind is a term invented by the 18th century German romantic philosopher Ser Christopher Riegel and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The unconscious mind might be defined as that part of the mind which gives rise to a collection of mental phenomena that manifest in a person's mind but which the person is not aware of at the time of their occurrence.

This is so poetic and meaningless.

I propose to use Human Operating System or HOS instead of "unconscious mind." This way the concept is defined by its function not by its location.

Inspired by the convention proposed here by Neale Martin we can separate the OS by function into two parts: executive and habitual.

Executive human OS processes information by using a communications (or social) language such as English. The executive OS stores and retrieves linguistic elements (called memories and thoughts) and make connections between these elements to solve problems. Executive OS created the notions of present, past and future. This is like the computer interface seen and used by human users. The common user has no idea how a computer works or what assembly language is or where it is located.

Habitual OS processes functions necessary for the harmonious existence of the body. Regulations of periodic motions, body temperature and storage of learned behavior such as habits. Habitual OS lives in the present. It only knows the present.

The executive OS can be used to program the habitual OS. I want to make these programming rules systematic. One benefit of this would be to program habits as easily as programming a computer. An article like Cultivate a good habit in 21 days is almost like a script used to program a computer.

What do you think?