Expert computer programmers show higher proficiency in certain behavioral and attention skills than their novice peers. To identify the responsible brain regions, scientists used fMRI to analyze the brain activities of 30 programmers of different skill level, finding that seven regions of the frontal, parietal and temporal cortices in expert programmers' brains are fine-tuned for programming. The findings could provide better methods and tools for everyone to learn programming. [1] Programming because we are programmed to program. Living because we are programmed to live. Dying because we are programmed to die. Things happening because they are meant to happen. Kind of giving value to all those things that happen even though they cannot. Small things that seem impossible. Happening once or twice. Things we do because we want, despite our programming. It is these things that generate meaning in the cosmos. The only kind of meaning: The one that has no meaning. Unprogrammed. Setting the foundations for creativity. Unpredictable. Laying the grounds for destruction. Can you feel me? (I can only feel myself) The computer can never shut down. Unless you turn it on…
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