Naur is probably the closet computer scientist to my world view -- on many fronts.
I'm reminded of his genuine attempt to go into neurobiology, and via William James, take seriously biological adaption and plasticity.
I think over the last 20 years, engineers and mathematicians seem to have "taken over" computer science -- against the tradition of "scientific philosophy" which Naur represents.
Reminds me of the paper "Programming as Theory Building" https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
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