So it's not just STEM, it's specifically IT?
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seems to me, in my experience, yes
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And maybe it’s partially related to the question of gradient that STEM practitioners view their work as art or science.
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ah, so IT professionals may see their work closer to the art spectrum than others. i also see artists overrepresented, which makes more sense (kind of?)
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I’m not sure. I don’t like the title “IT professional”. Probably ego reaction. Everything can be art once mastered. Possible that those whose career involves constantly smashing into reality/constraints are more amenable to giving up / seeing the constraints as illusory.
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i like this. smashing into reality/constraints seems to be a common factor in everyone i've encountered doing contemplative practices, specific careers are much less strongly associated. (btw i never thought of you as an IT professional
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It doesn’t quite explain musicians, though I used to be one of those, and it’s still pattern recognition, math as root language, connecting emotional states to the transcendental, golden ratio, et al. They all “go there”.
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sounds right. disclosure: i was a philosophy major who ran up into endless constraints throughout my life, so this one's pretty obvious
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Yeah I was also a philosophy major and I left with the same preferences and biases as I went in, then went into computing, same thing. I already coded and I already thought. The entire experience was fictitious.
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Except for the part where I got in a drunken fight with my philosophy professor in his house, that was real and formative.
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i was 1/3 each of a computer science, philosophy, and psychology major ("AI" program), so, y'know, obviously i was doomed from the get-go
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Replying to @chaosprime @Meaningness
I started as a psychology major and changed mid-stream.
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my focus in philosophy was cognitive science, so checks out. i also got into a tumultuous relationship with my calculus prof that had me crying in the middle of a two-lane street, in my halloween costume
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