Sentence:  In its extreme form, proponents of the <WSD>Dataist</WSD> worldview perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms and believe that humanity's cosmic vocation is to create an all-encompassing data-processing system — and then merge into it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (dataist) (Pertaining to dataism)