> but it's also horrifically complex and we have no real idea about the specifics of how it all works, or what to do when many, many things go wrong. Sounds a

> but it's also horrifically complex and we have no real idea about the specifics of how it all works, or what to do when many, many things go wrong. Sounds a lot like neural networks. I think libraries are a result of the human brain's limited working memory capacity , while organisms or neural networks aren't so limited in what they can focus on. Perhaps the transformer became successful in syntactic abstraction because it is limited on how many things it can focus on. Computer libraries are equally a result of limited memory and disk. Javascript is a counterexample of what happens when computing is free (because it runs on someone else's computer)