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Software as Soulcraft and the Metaphysics of Engineering with Neal Davis

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Creating Meaning in the Things Around Us

There are souls, and there are things like souls. And i refer to this as insolment, right? That we're actually watching the the birth of a new entity that will be persistent. There's this idea in shinto that when you make certain kinds of objects, like a sword or a shrine or a tory gate, that if you make it properly, a come will come to dwell in that object. We can always turn the question around, and we can say, what kind of spirit or demon would live in micro soft word "ribbon"? This is a valid question,. Like, what is being evoked by the ribbon? When it was introduced at the top of of

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