When we follow our natural inclinations (especially as children) and empathize with the living world around us, we're often told "not to project human emotions onto plants and animals.

But why not?

Does that create connection or disconnection within us?

If we're not assuming that the non-human world also feels, then we're assuming that it doesn't. And this perspective is rationalized by the assertion that "nature is a living version of a machine".

This is what I call "mechanomorphism" - projecting the machine metaphor on the livingness of the world.

This video contains a few thoughts on the issue.

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