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The Reality of the Artificial

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Conventional technology and the technology of naturoids, respectively, generate machines and processes as non-natural realities. While conventional technology aims right from the beginning to give rise to things which do not exist in nature, the technology of naturoids, though it wishes to generate things inspired by natural exemplars, cannot avoid transfiguring them to some degree.

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Negrotti, M. (2012). Conclusions. In: The Reality of the Artificial. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29679-6_23

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