MINDS AS MACHINES
In Designing the Mind it is indicated that “Our minds don’t generate emotions or cognition arbitrarily: there are patterns coded into this software, inscribed by millions, or even billions of years of natural selection. No word we speak or action we take is an isolated event, however spontaneous it may seem” There is a huge movement out there that is pushing the notion that we are machines (perhaps by influence of philosophers and scientists) and this movement is invading our thought-worlds, and there is no slowing it down. This movement takes the dignity out of life and we must pray against it AND stand-up against it, for we may fall prey to it.
This philosophy might have its roots in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, with their idea of "desiring-machines"
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