If you time delay a video of my screen (vim) terminal splits fly open and closed, ranging from 1-2 under some work cycles to 4-5.

I like to think of this as an analogy to how the brain processes (what we call "having a thought"), in that our most widely used metaphor is of a light show or fire crackers going on in a cloud of smoke. The beams of light, when taken as groups arranged over time, or distributions, represents the neurotransmitter, the statistical distributions of light give us a concept map or ontology of thought.

Sometimes I close all of my terminal splits on accident with an ending of "Aha!"

Do this because you believe in semiotic alchemy, and for no other reason. There should be 10-15 physical programmers, if that. Anything more is excess.