That programming languages can reflect life is something I agree with you on: particularly concepts such as "model-view-controller". Consider that we as humans are all data, the view is the media, and control is the governments. Does this mean that a different culture contains human beings fundamentally different to us? No. We are all just data, manipulated and viewed in different ways.

I would go further to suggest that Engineering (or applied sciences) are reflective of almost every other subject. Consider psycology. Students/practicing psycologists consider themselves able to analyse others.. yet I believe this is nonsense. The Nyquist theorem states that to reproduce a signal you must sample at twice the highest frequency of the source.. and correspondingly I believe you can't analyse someone else unless you're twice as smart as they are.. otherwise someone smarter may appear much dumber as you instead interpret a baseband response.

Systems and Control, and Fourier Analysis says a lot more about the world and human behaviour than all the other self-proclaimed experts. But of course, how would they understand this?

In reply to Re: Freedom in the rearview mirror by monarch
in thread Freedom in the rearview mirror by f_tte

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