The evolution of software development can be understood from the reference frame of attempts to manage complexity.

The development of more abstract and expressive computer languages introduced modularity, late-binding, functional application, and other concepts that made it possible for programmers to better structure and understand the programs they were writing.

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This is a wonderful talk about design and how to do it right.

I do recommend that you go through the talk before proceeding further.

The conclusion comes out at the very end. It is the same observation that Christopher Alexander employs in this multiple-volume series ‘The Nature of Order’:

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It’s not known to many that the first person to recognize the universality of NAND and NOR gates to logic was first articulated by C.S.Peirce. However, C.S. Peirce has always contended that logic was a subset of what he called semiotics (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotic_theory_of_Charles_Sanders_Peirce )

In recent days, DeepMind has unveiled…

In Frank Herbert’s Dune, the affairs of the entire universe revolve around a psychedelic drug known as the Spice Melangethat enables beings the ability to fold spacetime and see into the future.

The spice is essential because without it travel between planets in the universe would be practically impossible. …

It’s incorrect to treat either emotions or consciousness like an axiom in the formulation of general intelligence.

I agree that emotions are a parameter in cognition. But this parameter is also regulated by cognition. How we perceive the world is regulated by our cognition and emotions are an emergent response…

All cognition involves the interpretation of language. But what is the difference between the brain’s interpretation of its senses and the interpretation of language?

For starters, the interpretation of language should appear to be simpler because another agent who vocalized or wrote the expressions did so with an intention of…

The consequence of humans trading in nouns is that they spend an inordinate amount of effort attempting to understand the design of natural things without understanding why that thing emerged.

We focus too much on the forest but always overlook the trees. Our reductionist habits are biased towards simplicity. …

When we first learned how to drive on the highway, it was a conscious process. Now it’s unconscious and we can daydream for miles without even being conscious of the road. Habit becomes unconscious that’s how the brain works.

That means that everybody’s conscious habits are going to be different…