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It is possible to accept everything you say except for the last sentence.

Technology is the result of the evolutionary process of the universe. If the process resembles its own result, that shouldn't come as a surprise.

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Not sure if we're in agreement then. Calling out the analogy as Feuerbachian is essentially saying that the analogies between technology and the universe are anthropological framed around our own ideals and not some universal truths.

Right. And in the second half of my comment I explained why your reasoning is faulty.

You must think the natural and artificial worlds as being self-similar. Think them as one continuous, self-organizing process.

Thank you for phrasing this so succinctly. Self-similarity pops up again and again in nature. Mostly we think of this in terms of geometry (fractals, etc...) but why couldn't self-similarity also apply to time oriented processes like cosmological evolution?

Bingo. Self-organization, in a strong sense, is the process of cosmological evolution.

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