There are reasonable suggestions that public key encryption does more to identify the participants to a transaction than to promote privacy or even encryption ('data hiding'). So then, taken that way and discarding 'data hiding' as a distraction, its easier to perceive those algorithms, computers and related systems as mere extensions of will, thought and desire that simply act upon events, data, messages, signals and the related statistics all leading to:
imminent,
eminent and/or
immanent consequences.