Without self awareness, man acts, speaks, studies, reacts, mechanically, like a machine on the basis of 'programs' acquired accidentally, unintentionally, mecha

Without self awareness, man acts, speaks, studies, reacts, mechanically, like a machine on the basis of 'programs' acquired accidentally, unintentionally, mechanically. He is not aware that he is acting in accordance with programs; it is therefore not difficult to reprogram him - to make him think and to do quite different things from those he had thought and done before - provided only the new program does not wake him up. When he is awake, no one can program him: he programs himself - E.F Schumacher