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Lovely weather.
I am glad you make this assertion.
It clears the ground.
I hold an opposite view.
Nothing is mechanical, except if that is how you choose to perceive it.
Without a priori intent, even the phrase “what is, is” is too much of an interpretation.
A questioning beyond function liberates from a functionalist worldview.
The world makes more sense - as we forget that it must make sense, as we let “the world”, which then no longer exists as an entity - and it never did - , talk to us, exist, signify, mean, from appearance to appearance.
Let scientists practice science. Let methods be made useful. But don’t let life be made into a method.
You can set goals, but this is on you. You can interpret, but this is for you.
The living doesn’t need to be known as mechanism to live. What sense could it make to claim that anything is mechanistic, except that which is deliberately constructed as such?