A few weeks ago I was talking to Michal, who is a Lead Security Engineer over at Resonance Security. We were planning to discuss cross-chain issues, but as is always the case, the conversation meandered off into different fields, mostly concerning how the programming language you use shapes your view of the world.
Theory of mind
There is a theory of mind based on language with a name that sounds like it came straight out of Star Trek.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Simply put, it proposes that the grammar and vocabulary of the language we think in, and the society that we live in and which spawned that language, profoundly influence the way we interpret the world around us. Together, both frame and limit what we are able to mentally conjecture about.