What if your brain were ~*literally*~ JavaScript
summary
Compares three concrete claims: the parser maps to human language so ambiguity is dangerous in code and explains hoisting and this defaulting to global; the object/prototype system corresponds to categorization theories with a list of well‑known intrinsic objects and mismatches between human basic‑level categories and JS types; and the event loop functions as attention, single‑threaded but asynchronous, tied to empirical attention findings (Stroop, dichotic listening, inattentional blindness) that show humans fail at modality‑overlapping multitasking.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:34Comparing Javascript to Human Language
- 3:40How Javascript of Javascript Evolves
- 13:34Object Recognition
- 13:59Categorization Theories
- 16:19Typicality Effects
- 17:37Basic Level Categories
- 20:27Attention as a Filter
- 20:40Attention as a Spotlight
- 21:17Attention as Control
- 22:38Inattentional Blindness Study
- 23:22The Dichotic Listening Task
