I find his AI/AL focus compatible with autopoieitc-extended design through his account of ground-up self-organization: … living organism are nothing more than complex biochemical machines.
Cities, to them, were Little Rock, Fort Smith, Oklahoma City: raffish, expanding towns, more than complex, grinding cities.
Here's a list of the Guardian's favourite long reads, including pieces on all-male members' clubs and what makes human beings more than complex robots (obviously the worry over how to spend Christmas).
The Nazis categorised those they disapproved of as subhuman, just as Fuyukama stigmatises certain groups as posthuman: in an ugly jest, he warns that 'computer geeks in AI labs who think of themselves as nothing more than complex programs and want to download themselves into a computer should worry, since no one would care if they were turned off for good'.
In this regard she meets her match in her ambitious young doctor, Jason Posner (the appealing Alec Phoenix), a brilliant if heartless cancer researcher who looks upon patients as little more than complex structures to be decoded -- not unlike the way Vivian seizes on Donne's poems.
Whereas earlier generations thought that living things must contain something more than complex molecules (some "vital substance," say), or that there must be something more to thinking beings than intricate brains (an "immaterial mind," for example), contemporary biology and contemporary neuroscience showed that there is no need for such hypotheses.
