I've been thinking over a bunch of intertwined threads regarding the architecture of reality that is imposed on the dominant social fabric. This idea is extrapolated from several sources. The most well know is the work published by Larry Lessig on how code influences the architecture of cyberspace which in turn influences cyber "norms" and several other factors.
The relevance to the interactions of social/mental norms of software developers
based on their neurochemical based architecture of reality becomes important when that reality gets coded and is alive in cyberspace in the form of software, infrastructure and applications.
There is a mainstream cyber architecture that is evolving that we interact within the constraints of daily on the inter-web. Arguably these are driven primarily by commerce, but at the end of the day, can only reflect the interpretation of system requirements interpreted as the output of the individual coder's neurochmical /internal reality architecture.
So the resilience of software based systems has a ceiling based on development teams norms which is highly influecned by a few individuals naturally imposed limits in vision/architecture based on the current state of brain neurochemistry.
I need to think over some of this stuff but it comes down to this. Individuals that can reliably break systems (software and otherwise) are have wired themselves or are naturally wired to have an expanded view of the given system's architecture and are working outside the constraints of the norms and architecture of the system's designer's. Matt Blaze is a good example of this type of person.
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