Absolutely. I inherited a rather academic codebase and after two years, I'm just starting to find it difficult to delete more code than I write each day.
I have dreams of conscious others. There, I am the only consciousness, and a single dream in my mind is much simpler than a whole world full of other consciousnesses and their dreams.
No. All those questions on StackOverflow along the lines of "I cut and pasted this bit, and then this bit. Why doesn't it work?" were not written by smart programmers.