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Are the days of legal {{tag|contract}}s as discrete [[Ontology|ontological]] things, abstracted and divorced from our bio- and eco-mechanical beings, numbered?
{{a|technology|}}Are the days of legal [[contract]]s as discrete [[Ontology|ontological]] things, abstracted and divorced from our bio- and eco-mechanical beings, numbered?


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Not really, in this contrarian’s view. If they were, they would have gone by now.
 
Code is law is a variation of the Boolean view of language that it is an exercise in symbol processing in which meaning and data are identical, in contradiction to the idea that meaning is a “[[betweenness]]” thing
 
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*[[Smart  contract]]
*[[Smart  contract]]
*{{br|Code: Version 2.0}}
*{{br|Code: Version 2.0}}
*{{author|Lawrence Lessig}}
*{{author|Lawrence Lessig}}
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Are the days of legal contracts as discrete ontological things, abstracted and divorced from our bio- and eco-mechanical beings, numbered?

Not really, in this contrarian’s view. If they were, they would have gone by now.

Code is law is a variation of the Boolean view of language that it is an exercise in symbol processing in which meaning and data are identical, in contradiction to the idea that meaning is a “betweenness” thing

See also