That probably only makes sense if you believe in the existence of souls, otherwise a very artificial distinction.
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Replying to @typhlologician
It's a current empirical truth from which Im very wary generalizing.
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
I disagree, it's a perception simple and useful enough to be taken for granted but I don't see much truth in it. For example,
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Replying to @typhlologician @AngloRemnant
animals are better athletes than robots in part due to preflexes, which to me means biology has access to better material tech than us.
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Replying to @typhlologician
There is something to this.. it's an excellent line of thought. But Im not sold on the relation to technology..
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @typhlologician
.. e.g. Ecoli are better at survival than robots. How does that relate to your athletic example re Tech?
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
I was trying to highlight how in the absence of supernatural forces the notion that tech ⊂ mankind doesn't seem to hold for me.
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Replying to @typhlologician @AngloRemnant
Man himself doesn't fall from sky and is already a tech. artifact in sense that computation can be seen as branch of dynamical systems.
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Is there no notion of intelligence immanent in your definition of tech?
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
Yes but for me intelligence is something more fundamental and what produces brains/intellects in the first place.
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Something like the ability to model the future, at whatever level of abstraction?
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Replying to @AngloRemnant
The ability of some open quantum system to minimize its total entropy production so more or less, yes. Open/Closed Intelligence/Intellect.
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Replying to @typhlologician @AngloRemnant
(that last bit is more of a metaphor than a good analogy but you get the gist)
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