Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are) | NOEMA
(Discoverer of xenobots, machines made from living cells of frogs. Considers the definition of machine which becomes a hard problem when they appear to have minds. Looks for a unified theory or continuum akin to electromagnetism to include life, strange metals aside. In this case, cybernetics sits somewhere on a stack including substrates, training, and reason which can be shuffled among levels. Emphasizes Diverse Intelligence and the fact that minds can replicate or create others. The title graphic resembles a xenomorph or perfect predator from Alien. A discursive style explores narrative and pluralist perspective. Therefore it could be categorized as post-cyberneticism or posthuman cybernetics. Whar does it mean for BCI? What else is needed for technological convergence? What is the scale of mimicry? Or of generative?)