The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang. Irrelevant to your post, in many ways, but it looks to the perspective of a piece of software given a journey over time. All of his work is a fascinating read, but your text reminded me of the sort of somethings that he would write.
How I wish I could magic copies of his anthologies into your hands and discuss all the stories in them with you. They're phenomenal.
That ammonite is a thing, but somethings have meanings to us for their connection to other things. The corporeality and uniqueness of natural objects is a foundational weight in the world. Copies and industrially produced stuff don't seem to carry the same.
We delve deeper into the annals of a nightmarish world described by Jean Baudralard of meaningless objects, with Walter Benjamin wagging a finger knowingly.
Then there's probably Plato in his cave going "its all just a projection".
I suppose thats why touching grass and eating plants feels so good. It is all different. It is all new, organic raw experience.
I've had had Chiang on library order for ages, I must follow that up.
I'm not a fan of writing from an inanimate object or animals perspective to be fair. There's a anthropomorphic fakery going on, as if we refuse to understand unless it's on our terms. Still, it was fun to write. Badly edited, now I reread, but life is too brief sometimes to rework to an imagined perfection.
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