"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them" -- Alfred North Whitehead I have been

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them" -- Alfred North Whitehead I have been interested in the subject ever since I read the part of Code Complete dealing with the notion of abstraction. If everytime you woke you had to think about the fact that a door is a bunch of atoms that together form different materials but together some of it being the doorknob you'd never be able to leave your bedroom. It ties closely with the notion of affordance A teacher told me that the reason for the banning of pork in the Quran and the Bible is to prevent some diseases. Straigth up banning pork for health reason solved the problem. It's probably some kind of myth.