[DanielBMarkham]

"Is this really the best we can do in 2020? How are other fields conveying complex abstract notions and ideas?"

Shameless plug: it's been on my mind for a while as well. I'm writing a book on this that has (I believe) several novel insights.

There's far too much to cover in an HN essay, but perhaps my best response is that your idea of working backwards from machine code to thought is a mistaken paradigm. There's no translation or mapping, at least not in the sense that coders like to think. That's one of many fallacies we've ran into on our journey over the last several decades to write better and more useful code.