Caylynn
Pleb
posted 01-23-01 13:30
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PCD, almost anything with any link to nature could be said to be 'discovered' as opposed to 'invented'.
Micah Aragorn
Pleb
posted 01-23-01 15:17
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35 / 75
Electricity would be a great invention except that human's didn't create electricity. Nature created it. We only learned how to harness and use it for our purposes. The same with Herbal medicine. Nature created the essence...We created mixtures. What is a pure human invention? For me I agree with the "wheel".
Caylynn
Pleb
posted 01-23-01 15:22
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36 / 75
Actually, you could claim that the wheel was discovered, not invented, because, after all, spheres and circles exist in nature. One could say that man just discovered that he could put the circular shape to use.
Micah Aragorn
Pleb
posted 01-23-01 15:31
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41 / 75
Then would you say that human's have not purely invented anything but have simply learned how to discover and harness.
Fortuna
Pleb
posted 01-23-01 15:34
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42 / 75
To a certain extent, yes. Everything we use was here on Earth to begin with. It's up to us to discover it and use it.
Micah Aragorn
Pleb
posted 01-23-01 15:40
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45 / 75
Then one would surmise that human invention is only the by product of nature's inventions. This is getting too philosophical.
SenetEr
Pleb
posted 01-23-01 15:49
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47 / 75
Personally, I think the cold shower has probably kept mankinds' mind on inventing things and not on other things...