@LaurenUba idk if this makes sense haha but i feel like swimming provided a type of complete sensory "immersion" that you can't really get with air—or maybe just a more intense sensory experience. if we lived in water and "swam in air" would this also happen...
@LaurenUba yes!! i also swam competitively for a while and definitely mentally categorized of all the pools i swam in. warm ups in fast pools were top tier : )
@LaurenUba another thing i really loved was just getting accustomed to the feel of water...like if you get back in the pool after a while it just feels so slipper and unfamiliar but after a couple practices, the water feels almost solid—like you can actually "grip" it
I swam competitively for 14 years, and was just reflecting on how sensitive I became to subtle perceptual differences during that time. Water =/= water: some is fast, some sticky, etc etc. I can recreate the feeling of the water in my favorite competition pools in my memory
programming languages are languages!! sounds silly to say but makes me think of machines as their own species? what is their culture,, their social structure,, their heritage,,,,