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[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Esperanto, Volapük and Elvish beg to differ 😛

[–] sauerkraus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're operating with a RIDICULOUSLY overbroad definition of "natural" that includes pretty much everything artificial 🤦

[–] sauerkraus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it not natural for humans to create artificial tools?

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The action may come naturally, but the tools are by definition man-made and thus artificial.

[–] sauerkraus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Man-made and artificial things are natural.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sauerkraus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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