• @sauerkraus
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    12 years ago

    I would say all language are natural. Even mathematics.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      I guess I don’t know what you mean by that. My point was that nature doesn’t speak in any language. There are things that happen do to processes and conditions, we can describe those processes and conditions, we can use them to predict future conditions with math. But the base reality is that things simply exist.

      • @sauerkraus
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        12 years ago

        I meant that existence is nature. Following from that, anything which exists is nature or natural.

      • @sauerkraus
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        2 years ago

        Art and humour are inevitable consequences of sentient animals having the capability to create them.

        I think of it like squares and rectangles. Everything created by humans is natural, but only a fraction of natural things are created by humans.

        There is a natural progression from some particles colliding at the beginning of the universe all the way to low effort memes being posted on Lemmy.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          You’re operating with a RIDICULOUSLY overbroad definition of “natural” that includes pretty much everything artificial 🤦

          • @sauerkraus
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            02 years ago

            Is it not natural for humans to create artificial tools?

              • @sauerkraus
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                02 years ago

                Yes. Man-made and artificial things are natural.

                • @[email protected]
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                  02 years ago

                  I can’t tell if you’re a troll or you genuinely don’t know how language works, what words mean 🤦

                  • @sauerkraus
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                    12 years ago

                    My bad. I didn’t know philosophy was unwelcome here.