**Links to**: [[Organism]], [[System]], [[Function]], [[Functionalism]], [[Markov blanket]], [[Boundary]], [[Limit]], [[Error]]. >“What we are witnessing today is a shift from the _organized inorganic_ to the _organizing inorganic_, meaning that machines are no longer simply tools or instruments but rather gigantic organisms in which we live.” p. 29. _Recursivity and Contingency_, Hui. >“Leroi-Gourhan has claimed that technology is both exteriorization of memory and liberation of organs; the technical object is also what Kapp calls a “projection of organs,” in the sense that tools are fundamentally shaped according to organs such that the former extend or even replace the functions of the latter. In his 1947 lecture “Machine and Organism,” Canguilhem praised Bergson’s Creative Evolution as the precursor to a general organology, since evolution is primarily a creativity of the _élan vital_.” ibid., p. 27. ... >“It is fair to say that it is only in Stiegler’s work that we can see a more schematized picture of a general organology consisting of psychosomatic organs, social organs (e.g., institutions), and all kinds of technical organs. Stiegler started using the term _general organology_ in 2003 and continues to develop into what he now calls _exorganism_.” ibid.