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Thomas Mical: Heterogenesis of Soft Machines (for Micro-Revolutions)

Updated: Nov 6

๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ฌ ๐Œ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ: ๐‡๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐’๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ (๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Œ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ-๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ)

๐’๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐ญ๐ก, ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ–๐š๐ฆ ๐๐š๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž

๐Œ๐ž๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‹๐ข๐ง๐ค: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87153168449


This presentation pursues a performative verbal-diagrammatic elaboration of a Theory of the Soft Machines, by giving full attention to the range of possibilities that Soft Machines can emerge. We will look at the distributed intelligence monadolgoy of Leibniz (and Whitehead panpsychism), and then turn to the rose of soft systems (Kwinter) and Soft Machines (Burroughs, also Bateson cybernetics of nature, also soft robotics research). Before this we will start with an explanation and detailing of the processes of heterogenesis, of genesis in the multiple, precipating divergence , heterogenesis always as (quantitative and qualitative) multiplicity arising from a hidden substrate. From heterogenesis we open up the possibility of differentiated soft machines emerging in nature and the mind, spreading tendril and fillments into mind and nature - soft machines are scintillating reciprocating mechanisms. This mandates intersecting the Machinic Phylum of synthetic nature with the Machinic Unconscious (Guattari) of the Information Age. We then return to the heterogenesis model, inflected by some simplified chaos theory, to introduce noise and randomness as surplus origin-points for the spawning of countless tiny micro-revolutions (In mind and nature, simultaneously).


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