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Whitehead postulated his idea of reality though his panpsychic view which iterates that experience and process, the act of change, is the constant within the universe; where every entity, even non-living matter, is within this process of becoming.
I mostly added him due to how he talks to Ontology, and its relation to the other novels on the list. I'd read him after Heidegger and Simondon. The act of becoming and change I feel fits the tone of Girls Frontline well, especially with the thought of dolls sapience.
On the other hand, Heidegger focused more towards how these objects "enframe/Gestell", or trap our reality and our thinking through its framework.
Within the technological framework, things lose their essence through a new essence.
The forest becoming lumber, people becoming numbers, they become standing-reserve/bestand in his words.
Yet despite this danger, he claims "But this danger, once seen, reveals the saving power."
Technology has to be both respected and understood, and through this, the act of revealing/aletheia shows the path of the world, like a butterfly from a cocoon.
Due to Heidegger's opinions on how technology is dangerous yet is the saving power in itself, Simondon's work "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects" was added to the list as it highlights this very phenom.
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects thinks of the automata more as a being in itself, that is in constant flux/change, one that should be a peer and we should embrace the change by understanding them more thoroughly.
I will add Neuromancer.