When I was young and heard people talking about plant spirits, I thought they were superstitious. Now I think they used on old word for “operating system”. Every complex organism implements a complex software that regulates its own dynamics and its relationship to other organisms
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Boils down to how much agency and autonomy there is. We can only create our own models each to predict others’ behavior. And while we are musing about those macro patterns, a myriad of meaningful processes take place in this being on many scales, that make this life possible.
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I do not question that there are some “higher level” control processes. But they are so much more complex and intertwined, that the metaphor of SW/HW just seems to fall short to describe what happens.
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