Hackers Subscribe to the Ontology of Science

Almost all hackers subscribe to the mechanistic, materialistic ontology of science (this is in practice true even of most of the minority with contrary religious theories). In this view, people are biological machines

Notes:

Found in an explanation for why hackers and programmers tend toward anthropomorphizing the hardware and software they work with.

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Scientific method (0.923400): dbpedia | freebase
Science (0.851492): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Reality (0.807208): dbpedia | freebase
Computer (0.731028): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
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Materialism (0.627760): dbpedia | freebase
Explanation (0.617500): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc

 The Jargon File 4.4.7
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book Chapter:  Raymond, Eric and et al., (December 2003), The Jargon File 4.4.7, Retrieved on -0001-11-30
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