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them, and I’ll get back in a moment to
Understanding Media and that project. One was
they only work with human innovations. If you ask
what a spider web, or a beehive, or a beaver dam,
or some animal thing enhances, you might get a bit
of an answer. What does it set aside? Not much
there. What does it retrieve? Nothing. What is the
reversal? Nothing, it’s never pushed to an extreme.
It doesn’t work on animal artifacts. Only human
ones, which was quite a surprise.
So here we have a way of discerning the difference
between humanity and the rest of creation. That
should be of interest to metaphysicians and