Adding to that conceptual challenge is separating in time the various components of the regulation and manipulation in the above analogies. Low-level programme

Adding to that conceptual challenge is separating in time the various components of the regulation and manipulation in the above analogies. Low-level programmers have an intuition of the 'time-cost' value of various hardware calls - the various caches, RAM, HD, network, etc. and how they can be many orders of magnitudes different even if the API considers them identically. Life goes the other way and requires you not only to integrate over nanoseconds, but also over petaseconds. And at most scales in between there are mechanisms of regulation and operation.