"...as graduate students, we were taught that "anthropomorphism"--projecting human characteristics onto living organisms, especially other animals--was a heresy, while at the same time we were required to learn and profess what, though it was not named at that time, I came to call "mechanomorphism"... --the projection of mechanical characteristics onto animals and all nature. ... How could we humans project the characteristics of our anthropic inventions onto all nature, all universe? Was nature at large not likely to be more like us naturally evolved creatures than like our machines?"
--Elisabet Sahtouris, in Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman & Elisabet Sahtouris, pp. 11--12
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