I've been meandering down the path of viewing people as machines running code for a couple decades. While it has certainly helped me feel like I understand the world, I think this way of thinking does weird stuff to the body, and I'm still unable to really do friendship well.
Here's a definition with a genuine asymmetry: unlearning = I removed some code from my mental codebase, learning = I added some code to my mental codebase. Suggests we need words for other kinds of maneuvers, e.g. refactoring.https://twitter.com/keegan_mcnamara/status/1136506573604433921 …
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well, depends on what level of abstraction / consciousness you think of the code; at the level i prefer, "letting the code run" (as opposed to tinkering with it) looks like doing what your body wants / flow, not like e.g. executing a verbal algorithm you got out of a book
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Zak Stein discusses the issue of seeing the mind as a computerhttp://www.zakstein.org/your-mind-is-not-a-computer-again-with-table/ …
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The thing that Zak is pushing back against here is really not what I intend to point to with the phrase "mental code." I mean more like e.g. you get angry when people criticize you a certain way, and when you get angry you start arguing against their criticism, etc.
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