Here is a simulacrum of agency in the non-living world! Agency in - TopicsExpress



          

Here is a simulacrum of agency in the non-living world! Agency in some ways involves solidity, in others fluidity, for, all agency is reasoned spontaneity. So consider a material that is in some ways solid, in other ways fluid. A viscoelastic material is like this: it manifests the freedom of a fluid to deform infinitely when subject to the least shear force, but it also manifests the determination of a solid to recover itself at least somewhat after a force has deformed it. Here some viscoelastic material dances on a vibrating woofer. You could make the woofer vibrate again almost identically, but the dance would never be the same. What happens is spontaneous, and visibly a simulacrum of what is expressive and alive. youtube/watch?v=yoB0pM2VASg
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:52:46 +0000

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