i just found a study from 2020 where they put programmers in an fMRI and had them code, and apparently activity was very similar to language use. this makes sense to me- do you ever have programming dreams where you seem to be generalizing the process or trying to understand reality through code?
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and i think some of the same ideas apply, eg readibility / clarity versus a really stripped down, optimal word count version of the same thing.
“Can anyone name this bird?” “Yes. I shall call him Gregory.”
This recursive function in my code will be named Larry so any time I need some recursion I can tell the program to call Larry and he’ll see you up.