Yup, I too believe that agent-based imperative thinking is very deeply anchored in us and for sure helps a lot to explain a computer at conceptual level agent:

Yup, I too believe that agent-based imperative thinking is very deeply anchored in us and for sure helps a lot to explain a computer at conceptual level agent: computer imperative commands: instructions you give it ... but later on once the understanding of the machine/tool is established i see how much more powerful the declarative resp. transformational "paradigm" gets for "computers" applied to the "platonic world" I believe that the transition towards the declarative paradigm and understanding of it is essential to grasp the idea of how "computers" and computation differs from other physical machines mankind invented.