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Our habit is to divide up our human world into
compartments of different sorts of ‘realities’: natural and
artificial, physical and moral, organic and juridical, for
instance.
In a space-time, legitimately and perforce extended
to include the movements of the mind within us, the
frontiers between these pairs of opposites tend to vanish.
Is there after all such a great difference from the point of
view of the expansion of life between a vertebrate either
spreading its limbs like a bat or equipping them with
feathers, and an aviator soaring on wings with which he
has had the ingenuity to provide himself?
It may not be necessary to enlarge here on the role of the
infinitesimal calculus as an extension of print technology. More
neutral than the alphabet, calculus permits the translation or