Classical Ideals

Classical Ideals

The Human Body vs the Machine

An essay written while carrying a baby and a baby stroller up a mountain

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Megha Lillywhite
Mar 21, 2026
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I have recently moved to a house on the top of a mountain in the remote countryside of Italy and I have had an epiphany about what we’re getting all wrong in our ideas about what it means for a machine to be “intelligent”.

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