The discrete elements can be created, modified or destroyed easily in one place and at one time. The other component is software. These are the instructions given to the computer to operate upon. Of the softwares there are two basic types of software, operating systems and applications. Operating systems, sometimes called monitors or master control programs, are the backbones of software.
All applications travel through the backbones to their appointed ends.
Applications are the individual instructions that cause the CPU to compute, to make decisions and move information around. Today we have a better idea of how the brain works than ever before. I'll get to the hardware aspects in a later section. First I'm mostly concerned with the software aspects of the human brain. Imprinting is involuntary by nature.