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Computer Science and the Enlightenment
Computer science as a discipline is tainted at birth with the original sin of kind of militarism and imperialism that they were incubated within defense corporations. The belief that everything that wasn't human could be cut into small pieces and reduced to the operating parts has continued into our development of technology very strongly. It forms the way we this image of the world we have as something mechanistic and ultimately computational and amenable to computational thought in ways that are hugely damaging. intelligence isn't something that just happens in the head, it's something that's both embodied that's done with the whole body. And so how can happen between people in machines or machines and non human animals and all in all kinds of other