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"everything in existence is discovered rather than manufactured, which feels like a useless distinction to make." Is it all that fuzzy or useless if you shift
by iamerroragent 3y ago
"everything in existence is discovered rather than manufactured, which feels like a useless distinction to make."
Is it all that fuzzy or useless if you shift your thinking to view things as discoveries made by you rather than manufactured by you?
Manufacturing something could be a process carried out by human intelligence but the knowledge to process stuff into something 'more' is a discovery to be made.
i.e. people make/invent chairs but discovered/experience a universe that lets them sit on chairs.
- rimunroe 3y agoSo humans discovered a way for matter to be configured in a new configuration for this uranium isotope, but we didn't discover how to arrange things into the shape of a chair?
- iamerroragent 3y agoNo? You just showed up to observe the universe and was gifted some ability to manipulate it to your advantage. You can say you were first to have an idea and we have a society that says you can have a right to 'own' that idea to sell or make money from it. But you didn't make a universe; a universe made you and you get to have ideas that are new, hopefully.