Excellent Sunday afternoon read from Professor @drmichaellevin for Noema Magazine that takes a look at the metaphors we use to distinguish between organic and non-organic beings and challenges some of the assumptions around what we consider to be machines and/or living things.

Very much in the style of Donna Haraway, he advocates at once for #pragmatism, for empirically testing the methods we use for interrogating systems that imbricate the organic and the machine and to keep an open mind when categorising which is which.

For fans of Douglas Hofstadter, #cybernetics, #systems and #ConsequentialCategories.

https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/