“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
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Tim, I believe that CH Waddington is the "creode" biologist you're looking for. I believe he was important in thinking about epigenesis.
I fell asleep last night listening to this on my ipod. In my dream, I was being shown around the Object Oriented Zoo, with Ian Bogost in the role of Virgil. For some reason, I was eating a Brillo pad. I'll have to re-listen to find out what might have set off that association ...
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