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Hackers Subscribe to the Ontology of Science

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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

et al., Eric Raymond, The Jargon File 4.4.7 (December 2003)

Notes

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

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