Living cells and tissues are not really machines; but then again, nothing is really anything – all metaphors are wrong, but some are more useful than others.

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• The notion of 'machine' used to claim living things are not machines refers to an outdated definition that no longer fits.claim0.801
  First central claim of the paper: the machine concept used in organicist critiques is historically contingent, not essential
• Living things are not 20th-century machines, but may be 21st-century machines.claim0.792
  Core thesis: the machine metaphor requires updating, not abandoning, in light of modern machine behavior.
• The material implementation and back-story of a given system are not sufficient information to reliably place it into a category of machine vs. living being.claim0.782
  Core ontological claim: composition and origin story are contingent, not essential, classifiers
• No principled limits to functionalization between living systems and inorganic machinery are known; hybrid functional systems can be constructed that are part living tissue and part smart electronics.claim0.779
  Strong claim that hybridization is unlimited in principle, making the life/machine binary conceptually untenable
• A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.778
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.777
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.
• The life vs. machine distinction is relevant only to the lowest class of machines available in prior decades and is not fundamental.claim0.775
  Claim that the organism–machine dichotomy is outdated.
• Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.773
  Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.