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

Idea Machines

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Social Invention

Social inventions come about by it being natural to do something, and then that natural thing is used to com in again. It gets a name, and then somebody comes along and says, let's institutionalize this. A lot of those things came about in the middle ages. There are other things, like what happens when somebody dies, the approbate. These are all things that would go back for centuries and centuries. I believe. The way they come about us by deliberate invention.

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