The celebrated physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, severely impaced by Lou Gehrig's disease, has been described as uniquely incorporated into the services of machines and other people who aid him - a sort of pre-singularity era being.
But in another version of Hawking’s story, we notice that he is more “incorporated” than any other scientist, let alone human being. He is delegated across numerous other bodies: technicians, students, assistants, and of course, machines. Hawking’s “genius,” far from being the product of his mind alone, is in fact profoundly located, material, and collective in nature.
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