.:Occult.info:.
"I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall." -William Blake
"Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers...In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer's spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform."
