Technomorphism

Tripaldi's name for the stance that raises the machine (clock, telegraph, computer, "universal computation") to an archetype broad enough to subsume organisms — "the organism is a machine," "DNA is literally a program." Its necessary premise and consequence is substrate indifference: matter becomes an interchangeable carrier of a universal function, so hybridizing flesh and silicon would "make no difference to the ontology of our machines." Lineage: Descartes's bête-machine → La Mettrie → Keller's "discourse of gene action" → Liberman's molecular computer → Agüera y Arcas. Tripaldi credits it with dissolving machine-as-imitation but rejects the price. The mirror-image error is biomimesis (nature as archetype; functions substrate-bound; Searle).