> designs are often very different because of the different scales and levels of organisation. This is our disconnect. I'm arguing for definitions that are sca

> designs are often very different because of the different scales and levels of organisation. This is our disconnect. I'm arguing for definitions that are scale invariant. In the long run and the wide (universal) scale I would expect any developing system to just increase in "layers of scale" over time so basing our labels on them doesn't seem useful. In that view "technology" is just another natural specialist organelle produced by the biosphere. As a fun aside, In the context of viewing the entire biosphere as an organism implies we are it's (still maturing) reproductive organs and that space colonization and terriforming will just be the organisms calfing season.