[joeman1000]

It’s shocking to be able to see it this way. Thank you for sharing this insight. It’s easy to see programming as something uber-sophisticated, because in most senses it is.

The reality is that we’ve been programming (we, the wider public) for a few decades of our millions of years of consciousness. Of course it doesn’t have the scientific rigour of something we’ve been doing for millennia, like construction.

With that said though, I think programming and computers in general is the closest we will ever come to ‘magic’ and wizardry. The fact that we can now effect reality with a few keystrokes is magical.