Regarding Dijkstra's quote: our brains are wired to model people with internal desires... sometimes it can lead to some errors, like animism, but if used correc

Regarding Dijkstra's quote: our brains are wired to model people with internal desires... sometimes it can lead to some errors, like animism, but if used correctly, it can be a powerful technique. I've designed concurrent systems with many processes talking to each other. Each process has a name that describes a profession, owns certain parts of a shared database and transacts with other processes. Sure that analogy can break down in the limits, but thinking like this allows me to get a much clearer mental picture of what's happening.