Re: natural vs artificial
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I know the man took LSD but this makes sense
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Like many words used on a philosophical or science forum "natural" has too many potential meaning to be useful without a lead-in definition. Essentially, there is natural and supernatural, any other use of the word means you create an arbitrary boundary between certain hard to define categories.
If I create NaCl in my laboratory, is it natural or artificial ( because man made it)?
Is modern corn natural?
It doesn't seem to have any use. Things are what they are, if it exists or is being done in our 4 dimensions then it's natural. It may be unusual, it may be non-productive, it may be unhealthy, but it will be natural.
luckyme,
if I thought I was wrong, I'd change my mind
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