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> It amazes me mostly because this is not the sort of tasks our brains were specialized in doing, by estimating our development path in nature as mammals. conc

• vlovich123 7y ago
  And that we build artificial structures that align to how our brain operates. I suspect the source code written & the tools built would look a bit different if they're tuned to a brain with a totally different operational principle.
  • oscargrouch 7y ago
    This is a great observation. Our tools would be designed according to our experience of the world. But theres another catch, the tools we use change the shape of our mindset, leading us to design other tools that now map to this new perception of reality we have with the new mindset we built by using the former tools. The hunter-gatherer example given in the first comment for instance, i bet with enough evolutionary steps, we will not be able to trace back to that mindset, because we have "patched" our own mindset so many times with new tools(over tools) that we will have very little "mindset identity" to share with our former "hunters-gatherers" primordial cousins.
• Geee 7y ago
  Although, I think programming languages could be designed to be even more friendly for our visual/spatial brain. I don't think text-files are optimal.
• thedirt0115 7y ago
  Ooh, this seems like something we can test! Brain scan while doing spatial navigation tasks vs tasks that require reasoning about the structure of code -- hypothesis would be that it should light up some of the same areas?