You know, the older I get, the more I think about Charles Stross's Laundry Series and how in it, computer science and applied demonology are the same subject, and older experts in this joint field tend to develop spongey brains from accidentally summoning tiny demons in their head.

I'm just saying "your brain doesn't work because your knowledge of programming has caused interdimensional energy beings to manifest in your grey matter" keeps making more and more sense as time goes on.

@foone I figured that was the "flow" state when you really got into the zone. Demons make deals, right? Nice cozy place in your brain in return for the focus and endorphins to code up that last pesky library function.

I'll say it again, we never should have trapped lightning in rocks, and taught them to think.