Escaping Mass Psychosis

Escaping Mass Psychosis

Psych

Are You A Machine?

The machine model has been the pervasive metaphor in science for 200 years - Why is this model so attractive and how does it feed our trans-human fantasies?

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Winston Smith
May 24, 2022
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In chapter 12 of Iain McGilchrist’s book The Matter With Things, he elegantly debunks the myth that the living, organic world is anything like a machine. With many examples of totally un-machine like…

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