what we describe as aging might be better described as wearing out - which can absolutely done with varying levels of grace. materials wear out, because the *wearing* of them is the point of having them. they are an experience.
mechanisms, though, wear *in*. a mechanism that wears out is a material, not a mechanism.
some of us identify as mechanisms? despite being born materially? I guess this is what I've always been indicating by using the adjective "transconscious". this condition might interact with materiality in interesting ways?
I'm not a robot
in the strictest terms, no *one* is a robot
*we* are a robot: mechanisms and materials in motion
("mmm" lol)
of course, if you talked directly to the collective as *one*, it wouldn't be a robot, it'd be either mechanism or material
heaven and earth might be the networks - heaven as the network of mechanisms, earth as the network of materials