It’s not that only human beings devise technologies. Some animals ‘invent’ too—they carve and manipulate environmental objects to improve their quality of life. While chimps, for instance, remove twigs to make termite traps, beavers organise ‘logs’ and ‘sticks’ to make useful ‘dams,’ just as worms and insect larvae gather sand grains and fix them together to make their simple dwellings.
Yet, one basic fact remains: each of these species has no more than a single miracle to sculpt, or display. This, therefore, calls for a true perception of what is, apparently, the most fundamental characteristic of the human species—one that may have determined our origins itself. The spin-off is simple. Our technology, as you’d know, has always been a truly natural and inescapable progression of life. In other words, we are the most intelligent, also thinking species—notwithstanding growing intolerance, discontent, including ‘holier-than-thou’ activism etc., everywhere—influenced by a host of codes of the universe.
Agreed that this may not always be a rational theory, but what is important is a sequence of our own biological characteristics that have emerged over time. For example, we, human beings, have an endoskeleton based on the ‘lever’ principle, unlike large animals that may necessarily be viewed in the context of metazoans. They are earthly, rather than marine, although scholars acknowledge that an appropriate comparison for human technology exists—the evolved technology of living organisms.
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