What happens when code is compiled? For example, let's say someone writes something in Lisp. What happens once the code is run?Is this process the same for all languages? And has it been the same throughout the history of computer science?And can you give an example?Thank you.
I'm working on a story in which a computer programmer creates a therapeutic command-line-type program for people to use while on retreats. (I say command-line-type because it is largely textual and therefore cognitively aimed.)Do you know of any command line programs that ask users questions towards a therapeutic end? (Something like, though hopefully better than, emacs' "M-x doctor.") Do you...
If drugs "remove the long standing subconscious filters and biases that one has built over their life," what replaces them? Does one simply continue living into posterity without filters? I argue not, and in fact that, over time, the filters tend to come back without repeated exposure to drugs and drug-thought, and one is given a choice: return slightly-modified to regular life, or commit to taking drugs regularly, whereby one absorbs new filters/biases that change one's relationship with the world and are almost equally limiting. These "drug" filters/biases may generate beliefs such as the following: reality lurks behind what you see; we are all deluded; society is a myth; money is a myth; we are all one; we are being tricked into believing in this reality and, therefore, someone is tricking us (paranoia); etc.
While I agree that psychedelics do offer the important function of removing the filters/biases, I caution against presenting them as a uniformly positive method of doing so. I think they replace those filters with ones of their own making, and while thus leading to a different schema than sober exposure to regular life, they do not necessarily lead to a "better" one.
It's hard to pinpoint a "best," but I agree that this one (from Gravity's Rainbow) it quite, quite good, one I recall often.