Minds and Machines

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Channel: Footnotes2Plato · 2008 · People & Blogs

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response to patternsinchaos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khb0mtQW300

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=machine&searchmode=none

"Machine" refers more to the structure of a device designed to do some mechanical work. Its motion could be called locomotion. 

An organism is not designed, but is self-created by way of co-emergence with its environment over billions of years. Its motion might best be termed telemotion. 

Machines take on only the purposes of their designers, while organisms devise their own.

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