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I’m not arguing with your point, but let me offer another thought. The crux of this problem as I see it is that people consider themselves as separate from natu
by efnx 5y ago
I’m not arguing with your point, but let me offer another thought. The crux of this problem as I see it is that people consider themselves as separate from nature. The truth is that we are part of nature and the things we make are still part of nature. The opposite of “natural” is not “artificial” or “man-made” - it’s “supernatural”!
Of course the word “artificial” is useful to classify things for our safety and benefit, but we are not supernatural and so the things we create still exist in nature - like we are the hand of the universe reconfiguring itself.
This artificial separation of the human from nature has been popular in the past and I hope we overcome it.
- NoPicklez 5y agoI think a better term to use would be perhaps synthetic, which is something man made used to imitate something natural. So we would call it synthetic intelligence, if we wanted to get pedantic.