Let us pause for a moment and imagine indeed the topology of the multicellular organism that is the human body. As I wrote in the past, the body does not consist of an epidermic bag containing a set of organs (this would be the Euclidean reading of it). One would commonly agree that what is inside our throat is “inside our body;” yet, what is outside our throat is also “inside the body.” Which part is inside and which part is outside? This question is irrelevant because our body is not an Euclidean space, it is a topological one.

Simondon, Gilbert: L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (1964)

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