The Silicon Bough: A Report on Hyperdigital Magic

Like magic wands, words can be spoken through computers to cause effects at a distance. Magic has been suppressed by the rational progress of science to explain the world. Yet in calling upon spiritual intelligences, and in commanding effects to be caused from a distance, computers calculate the pro...

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Subtitles:Magic and Mischief: Texts and Practices in Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences
Main Author: Haecker, Ryan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Religion & theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 266-292
Further subjects:B Theology
B Trinitarian Ontology
B Trinity
B Ramon Llull
B Magic
B Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
B Science
B Digital
B James George Frazer
B hyperdigital
B Principle of Sufficient Reason
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