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kontextmaschine:

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and we know that inanimate objects don\u2019t have souls, or minds, or agency, yet we still name and christen ships and aeroplanes and put googly eyes on things and that\u2019s for our benefit and it\u2019s fun.

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I\u2019ve named my vehicles and some machines but it\u2019s the older more \u201canalog\u201d ones I actually address and treat as a being and try to coax things out of

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ironically it\u2019s the digital ones that are more likely to have an actual brain, but where\u2019s the fun in that.

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drum machines have no soul tho

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this is- you- harrumph.

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The distinction is “things you can practice husbandry towards”?

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