Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:47:49 +0900 (JST)
From: Alan Myouka Sondheim <sondheim-AT-gol.com>
Subject: Re:  Re:  machines



On Mon, 1 Jun 1998 Unleesh-AT-aol.com wrote:

> 
> "I think it's the fact that machines *produce* stuff.  "Network", for
> instance, is too inert:  stuff passes through a network.
> 
> This, to me, seems like the biggest point in _AO_:  desire is productive;
> desiring-machines *produce*.  YMMV...."
> 
With _all_ of these, however, why not substitute "organism" for "machine"?
Organisms also "produce" stuff; desiring-organisms "produce."

If anything will "date" AO and D/G it will be this, I think, this outdated
reliance on mechanisms, metaphoric or not.

Alan