On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:

> Prolog dreams involving natural language understanding, and eventually VR
> and mixed reality dreams.  In fact the latter two I would say I still have,
> though they are polluted/mixed with myth-dreams based in various archetypal
> tropes.


I just finished reading *Snow Crash* for the first time and was struck by
Hiro's (well, Lagos') assertion that programming languages are unlike
contemporary natural languages (and for the purposes of the story, like
Sumerian), that they access a more primal part of the brain. I do not think
this is true, but it is an interesting counterfactual reality to explore.

-Arlo James Barnes
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