The first part of the book is done!

(Yogi)

Yogi is really excited to announce that he has finished the first part (out of four) of his book called "Beyond the Age of Machines." You can read all the chapters he's already written on this project website here.

Part One is a thorough reevaluation of the machine view of the world, and especially its latest guise: the idea that the world is some kind of computer, or that all physical processes perform some kind of computation. Yogi highlights the metaphysical baggage of this view, which is not a rational view of the world based on science "all the way down." Instead, it is based on some rather dubious decisions that need to be understood in their particular historical context. This baggage now unduly constrains and limits the questions we can ask, and the explanations we accept in contemporary science. This criticism lays the groundwork for our own proposition how to go beyond these limitations.

All of the chapters will be illustrated by Marcus. He has not quite caught up to Yogi yet, but will do so over the next few weeks so it's worth checking in regularly, also because Part Two is about to be added. This second stage of the book will introduce the philosophy of scientific perspectivism to the reader, which we will then use in Parts Three and Four to build our theory of the organism, and the corresponding epistemology for a science of the 21st century.