¶ Mechanics (1)
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Man has learned how to externalize his own functions and to leave them behind. So that now you can use my hands [See Hands.], and we can go on from generation to generation of our hands, interchangeable hands. There are no tools that man has developed that are not extensions of the original integral functions, though the functions become, like the special cases in generalization, not too visible. They are always that way.
I don’t find anything that has been done by man, that we call mechanics, that isn’t part of his internal organism. He was apparently designed with this capability to externalize his internal metabolic regenerating organisms. And he is developing external metabolic regenerating organisms to take care of more and more human beings and extend the capability to all men so that all men can enjoy total resources no matter where they are.
There is something very big going on, and there is something that evolution is confronting man with that he doesn’t understand too well. I find very unsympathetic and short-sighted statements being made about technology
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¶ Citations
- COMMITMENT TO HUMANITY, May’70
