Chaosophy - autonomous learning

one referring to the possible and the impossible, the other to the
probability of a less-probable; the one acting through the functional
synthesis of a whole, the other through real distinctions in an
ensemble. Functioning as a component part in conjunction with
other parts is very different from being an extension or a projection,
or being replaced (an instance where there is no communication).
Pierre Auger shows that a machine is constituted from the moment
there is communication between two portions of the outside world
that are really distinct in a system that is possible although less
probable.2 One and the same thing can be a tool or a machine,
according to whether the "machinic phylum" takes hold of it or not,
passes or does not pass through it. Hoplite weapons existed as tools
from early antiquity, but they became components of a machine,
along with the men who wielded them, under the conditions of the
phalanx and the Greek city-state. When one refers the tool to man,
in accordance with the traditional schema, one deprives oneself of
any possibility of understanding how man and the tool become or
already are distinct components of a machine in relation to an actual
machinic agency. And we believe moreover that there are always
machines that precede tools, always phyla that determine at a given
moment which tools, which men will enter as machine components
in the social system being considered.
Desiring-machines are neither imaginary projections in the
form of phantasies, nor real projections in the form of tools. The
whole system of projections derives from machines, and not the
reverse. Should the desiring-machine be defined then by a kind of
introjection, by a certain perverse use of the machine Let us take
the example of the telephone exchange: by dialing an unassigned
number, connected to an automatic answering device ("the number
you dialed is not in service ... ") one can hear the overlay of an
ensemble of teeming voices, calling and answering each other, crisscrossing,
fading out, passing over and under each other, inside the
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