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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@olivia.science

If you assert bodies are machines, there's nothing further to say. Machines have certain properties (such as having been engineered) that to people who disagree with you and with (especially naive or strong) mechanical materialism it is obvious that bodies do not have.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@olivia.science

The assertion that only what is mechanical materialism (ideas like "bodies are machines") is science is dying or slowly and being replaced by other ways of seeing, understanding, and modelling biological organisms — both within the relevant sciences, e.g.

Corey@kh0rish.bsky.social

This is why AGI isnt happening. Sense perception, movement, and memory are chemistries coupled to each other and all coupled to direct matter exchange with the environment, like a centrifugal governor. Nothing is representation, interpretation, “info processing”, or math.

sol (extra spiders, seasonal)
@spider.florist

Ive been reading your and your coauthors’ posts for a bit; while I agree with a lot of your conclusions I don’t feel capable of grasping the arguments (my own deficit!), and this point is *very* clarifying of all the rest