An attempt to integrate the current ideas and results of Noam Chomsky with those of Christopher Alexander. Earlier work by these two, a linguist and an architect, unintentionally had a huge positive effect upon computing, making integration a sensible approach towards resolving the countless difficult problems in our field.
How do 'things' really work? When people begin to answer that question, on various topics, for themselves, it should be uncontroversial to say that they are using their minds. Let us, for the purpose of this discussion, sidestep the common-sense term mind (more on that later), and say that we're discussing the brain, part of our biological endowment. Since people are not conscious of most of what goes on in their body, they are similarly not conscious of what goes on in their mind. So when they begin to thi
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