I’ve thought about differing levels of innate behaviors in different species as being somewhat akin to different sorts of programming languages. So dogs and cat

I’ve thought about differing levels of innate behaviors in different species as being somewhat akin to different sorts of programming languages. So dogs and cats are more akin to, say, Pascal¹ which provides a high level of functionality at the language level, but are limited in capability² while humans are more like C where there’s less functionality out of the box, but the ability to accomplish unique tasks is less bounded. ⸻ 1. This is a theory I came up with as a high school student in the 80s so my choices of programming languages reflect that. 2. Insert obligatory Turing-completeness disclaimer here.