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The Nature of Technology with Brain Arthur [Idea Machines #41]

Idea Machines

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The Multiple Phenomena

Technology is the use of some set of phenomena to carry out some purpose. I think it's just actually frorm like, really understanding what's going on. But les tor, to look at invention, the state of the art was feting. It wasn't very good because all papers, well, all the versos of invention i was reading, always had a step and then something mercifully creative happens. And that wasn't very satisfactory. Then there as ther set of ideas that were darwinian. If you have something new, like the railway locomotive, that must have come out of variations, somehow, happening spontaneously,. might have been sufficiently different to qualify us radically new

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