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Old 06-5-2006, 12:06 AM   #1
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Default Manmade debate

My friend and I tend to debate certain issues everytime we work together, and this is one that I'd like to discuss with the FFR community. He says that for something to be man-made, it has to be made literally, by the hands of a human. He says anything made by a machine is "machinemade". I said that since a machine is built and programmed by a human to create a specific product designed by a human, then it is manmade. I said that in order for something to be "machinemade", it must be an idea that came from the machine, and since that sort of AI hasn't been developed, then nothing is machinemade (yet).

So what does everybody else think?
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Old 06-5-2006, 12:07 AM   #2
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I only use handmade and machinemade. It really simplifies the distinguishing process.
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Old 06-5-2006, 12:19 AM   #3
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The term "man-made" is normally used to describe something which is not naturally occuring. It does not literally mean "to be made by a man."

By the way, not a very good topic for CT. Nothing to discuss really. The one point of discussion has a simple solution.
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Old 06-5-2006, 02:10 AM   #4
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Nothing and everything is "man-made", if you think about it. Since every motion and event is propagated by cause and effect from the end of planck time, you can't really even assign a "creator" to anything. 8)
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Old 06-12-2006, 01:25 AM   #5
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I would say if something is made by a machine it is indirectly man-made.
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