When enacted, symbolic logic can effect procedural alterations to reality.

“Indeed the most prevalent set of metaphors seems to be that of code as structure: platforms, architectures, objects, portals, gateways. This serves to both depersonify software, diluting the notion of software agency (buildings are passive; it’s the architects, engineers, and users who act), and reifying code as an objective construct, like a building, that exists in the world.”
― What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
― What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
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