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Some strangeness in the proportion, or how to stop worrying and learn to love the mechanistic forces of darkness

Eric Dietrich

pp. 349-352

Understanding humans requires viewing them as mechanisms of some sort, since understanding anything requires seeing it as a mechanism. It is science's job to reveal mechanisms. But science reveals much more than that: it also reveals enduring mystery—strangeness in the proportion. Concentrating just on the scientific side of Selinger's and Engström's call for a moratorium on cyborg discourse, I argue that this strangeness prevents cyborg discourse from diminishing us.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11097-008-9102-6

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Dietrich, E. (2008). Some strangeness in the proportion, or how to stop worrying and learn to love the mechanistic forces of darkness. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (3), pp. 349-352.

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