The 20th century is said to have been the “age of ” because all explanations of how things work would end in some kind of computing or “information processing” by a known .

Some people think that the 21st century will be the “age of ” because science seems starting to look at nature and the living for inspiration about how things really work.

If this is true then must be one of the last remnants of the past century.

#machines #mechanism #biology #organism #Computationalism

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Stewart Russell · @scruss
298 followers · 2522 posts · Server xoxo.zone

the extremely pleasing and clever latch on a tube of Smarties

#fidget #mechanism #cardboard #latch

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Henry Segerman · @henryseg
2969 followers · 702 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

Another recursive mechanism - this time the distances between boxes alternate getting longer and shorter, so the boxes move diagonally! Full video: youtu.be/ckrrQTkTqIo

#gears #mechanism #3dprinting

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Andrew_Naidech · @anaidech
10 followers · 83 posts · Server mas.to

Proof that kills, neurological and rescue with a . @ct_bergstrom

#transplant #brain #mechanism #bacon

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Henry Segerman · @henryseg
2918 followers · 695 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

A "recursive" mechanism, where the position of each part is determined by the positions of the previous two parts in the chain. Full video at
youtu.be/ckrrQTkTqIo

#gears #mechanism #3dprinting

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Christophe Bousquet · @KrisAnathema
86 followers · 117 posts · Server fediscience.org

A simple for -making in the absence of

@PNASNews

"Individual budget the time they spend in depending on their distance to the ground, and a distance-based model of chain formation explains the emergence of this tradeoff without the need to invoke "

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216

#cognition #complex #chains #ants #information #payoff #decision #collective #mechanism

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MH Thaung · @mhthaung
252 followers · 1051 posts · Server mastodon.scot

"I'm here, lad!" called the detective.

The rookie dropped into the gloomy cellar. "How did you open the trapdoor?"

"Simple. I just pulled the ring and lifted."

"Was that all?"

"Essentially, yes. Once you get to my seniority, you stop making things compli—"

"Sir? Didn't that informant warn us about the a booby trap ?"

The door slammed shut, leaving them in the pitch black, other than a pair of glowing red eyes before them.

@tanweerdar

#microfiction #MastoPrompt #mechanism

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Sharon Cummings Art · @SharonCummingsArt
2577 followers · 18711 posts · Server socel.net
juma · @juma
80 followers · 1553 posts · Server mas.to

one mechanism
of operating in life
choose love, love, and love

#575

@tanweerdar

#mechanism #MastoPrompt #writingcommunity #writing #poetry #haiku

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Tanweer Dar (Tan) · @tanweerdar
1021 followers · 2146 posts · Server mstdn.social

The for Wednesday 12th July 2023 is:

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@penprompts

#SmallStories #MicroFiction #Poetry #smallpoems #mechanism #MastoPrompt

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Mustafa Halil · @AcikKaynakci
13 followers · 66 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Kalp - Heart

#solvespave #mechanism

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WordofTheHour · @wordofthehour
2249 followers · 34860 posts · Server botsin.space

: the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect

- French: mécanisme

- German: der Mechanismus

- Italian: meccanismo

- Portuguese: mecanismo

- Spanish: mecanismo

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ wordofthehour.org/r/form

#mechanism

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Bornach · @bornach
436 followers · 1914 posts · Server fosstodon.org

The cam timer that Tim Hunkin featured briefly in his latest Secret Life of Components video
youtu.be/heDQbZc8aX0?t=5m50s
reminded me of a very similar that @MLE_online created recently
social.afront.org/@MLE_online/

#mechanism #making #camtimer #timhunkin

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Henry Segerman · @henryseg
2565 followers · 555 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

Screw/screw gearing viewed from the side - you can see the teeth meshing together in the middle.

Full video at youtu.be/0ZPo3HxR0KI

#3dprinting #geometry #mechanism #gears #screw

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Henry Segerman · @henryseg
2542 followers · 550 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

A geared mechanism in which the "gears" follow screw motions rather than rotate. Full video at youtu.be/0ZPo3HxR0KI

#3dprinting #geometry #mechanism #gears #screw

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Philo Sophies · @philosophies
5 followers · 73 posts · Server mastodontech.de

The old and the new - part 2
- Explanation attempts for the understanding of the and world view -

In this part, in my opinion, the complexity of biological systems is taken into account and in this respect the mereological fallacy in the old mechanistic world view, is referred to as a construction error in reductionism.

philosophies.de/index.php/2022

There is an orange translation button "Translate>>" at the bottom left.

#mechanism #reductionistic #positivistic

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damian entwistle · @ukdamo
35 followers · 126 posts · Server mastodon.org.uk

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this 17th CE alarm candle clock, in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.

CE

#alarmclock #17th #mechanism #clockwork #milan #museopoldipezzoli

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CellBioNews · @cellbionews
34 followers · 714 posts · Server scientificnetwork.de
app4soft 🇺🇦 · @app4soft
56 followers · 161 posts · Server fosstodon.org

♥️ for Shape in app.
Grab CAD-file on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/78934926
🫶 Thank Y'all for support! Try & apps too!

#mechanism #drawing #heart #solvespace #freecad #blender #fc3d #b3d

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frankiezafe · @frankiezafe
463 followers · 3124 posts · Server mastodon.xyz