Exploring the philosophy of objects

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On Friday, 24 June 2022 at 01:00:06 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_ontology
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> After careful consideration, I believe you've taken oo too far 
> if you think it should affect anyone's meta physics.

Actually, I think in reverse.

That is, its metaphysics, that ultimately drives the nature of 
software development, and programming languages.

But the ending of Moore's Law is pushing us in the opposite 
different at the moment. And understandably. That's why newer 
languages are having a much greater focus on performance, perhaps 
at the expense of the abstract type??

But as Arnold once said: "I'll be back" (says the autonomous 
existing object).

The movie 'The Terminator', is a movie about 'a possible future 
where mankind has been oppressed by artificially intelligent 
machines, lead by the rebellious computer system Skynet.'

Nonetheless, we continue on that very path towards creating these 
very same AI 'objects'.

I'd argue, that more than ever, software engineering focus is 
being directed towards the creation of 'autonomous existing 
objects'.

Some of you already have them on your phones, in your TV, on your 
tablet, on your wrist....in your car......

Why?

Well, as Timothy Morton once said: "We are caught in object-ive 
existence whether we like it or not."

i.e. It's natural to think about our reality in terms of 
autonomous existing objects, so it's natural this will find it's 
way into other areas of our thinking, including programming.

If you don't know who he is: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Morton

Once this necessary refocus on extracting greater performance 
becomes less relevant in programming (some technological 
breakthough perhaps), we'll all be back focusing on creating 
automous existing objects again. It's how we think.

Well, not all.