Prompted by: https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/wheres-my-simulator.html

Simulating "in head" vs "in computer" aka "playing computer"

• computer is better at simulating (infinite) possibilities (ladders of abstraction) than our mind
• humans are great at choosing based on what they can see (creating/curating, solving things visually, novelty search)
• simulating computer in our head might not be the best way to program, it's just the one way we are used to
• proper general simulator could become a bicycle for the mind
• this might be loosely related to meta-cognition and debugging where we can also simulate our own thinking process to debug it
• related to future of coding - "playing computer" is just silly

• computation as simulation

— Metaphor in User Interface Design - https://web.archive.org/web/20170715052154/https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse595/98wi/metaphor.html