Cognitive Scaffold

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MENTAL MODEL · M0869

Machine

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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

Here, "machine" does not refer to mechanical devices, but to any assemblage that produces connections and flows. Everything is a machine: desiring machines, social machines, war machines. They operate through connection, disconnection, and reconnection.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

psychology

Reduce cognitive load

Dynamic connection view. Do not view organizations or people as fixed "structures," but as "machines" that constantly plug in, unplug, and reorganize. This helps understand flexibility in liquid modernity.

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Anchor fast decisions

In "Anti-Oedipus," Deleuze and Guattari transform the concept of the machine through the "desiring machine": the machine is not a mechanical device, but any "cutting-connecting" assemblage that continuously produces; desire is machinic production.

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