The Future of Programming

[Turniphead]

From "1973"
http://vimeo.com/71278954#at=0
http://worrydream.com/dbx/

Thought this was worth posting.

Also, as a very inexperienced programmer, I'd be curious to hear other's reactions.

 

[Black Rose]

That was great!

A device with a billion cores wont be programmed they way we program today.

What if you could program with brainwaves? Simulating lucid dreaming in VR. Imagine what we want and change it, manipulate it, self modifying code?

 

[John_Mann]

Yeah, our brains seems to work in same way. Our lowest "hardware" language it's not english, german, japanese, etc. One may think it's binary but it's not. We can translate the hardware external/physical mechanism as binary, but the mind don't speak binary.

Our mind seems to work at hardware level with a kind of image oriented language. What Jung called primordial images, and in philosophy it's called qualia.

We can access this image language in dreams. Dreams are an internal dialogue of mind and it's not constraint by higher language's law or logic. In dreams we mix up past with future and near with far space too. That's the reason it's so hard to describe a dream, b/c it was not made to be translated to our higher language.

Consciously we can make an experiment about it. You can count from 1 to 100 backwards as easily as forwards, but you can't do the same with alphabet. The reason is numbers are stored in our minds as images, they're stored in our lowest level, deep inside the mind, it's natural to mind. But letters are objects to mind, a foreign language to it.

And the best way to express this image language it's through art. I think machine hardware maybe works in same way. So I would try music or painting as programming language.

I think I'm too out of my mind now.

 

[Analyzer]

Yeah, our brains seems to work in same way. Our lowest "hardware" language it's not english, german, japanese, etc. One may think in binary but it's not. We can translate the hardware external/physical mechanism as binary, but the mind don't speak binary.

Our brain seems to work at hardware level with a kind of image oriented language. What Jung called primordial images, and in philosophy it's called qualia.

We can access this image language in dreams. Dreams is an internal dialogue of mind and it's not constraint by higher language's law or logic. In dreams we mix up past with future and near with far space too. That's the reason it's so hard to describe a dream, b/c it was not made to be translated to our higher language.

Consciously we can make an experiment about it. You can count from 1 to 100 backwards as easily as forwards, but you can't do the same with alphabet. The reason is numbers are stored in our minds as images, they're stored in our lowest level, deep inside the mind, it's natural to mind. But letters are objects to mind, a foreign language to it.

And the best way to express this image language it's through art. I think machine hardware maybe works in same way. So I would try music or painting as programming language.

I think I'm too out of my mind now.

That's interesting as I prefer studying linguistics or discrete math rather then numbers or arithmetic as it is more "high level" like you say. I get bored fast when thinking about how low level things work in general, be it in computers or the immediate details of any other system.

I think this is an example of what separates N's from S's. Abstraction is easier for us, or it's that we focus on it.

 

[John_Mann]

That's interesting as I prefer studying linguistics or discrete math rather then numbers or arithmetic as it is more "high level" like you say.

But in linguistics you don't work with letters as objects (like when you are spelling). You really work with abstractions (images) between word meanings (semantics) inside a specific language or between two or several languages (something more abstract).

Those who speak more than one language will understand better what I'm talking about.

When you achieve some proficiency in another language you don't think anymore with objects (as letters) but with meanings/thoughts/images. It's a very nice and strange experience.