I agree in that this doesn't really take conscious thought anymore. However, the article had the following: > How can a = a + 1? That’s like saying 1 = 2. It

I agree in that this doesn't really take conscious thought anymore. However, the article had the following: > How can a = a + 1? That’s like saying 1 = 2. It looks like a lot of us don't have (never had?) trouble accepting a statement like `a = a + 1` and, upon stepping back, thought maybe it had to do with our internal dialog (which is now probably intuition as we've been processing statements like this for so long).