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[โ€“] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Love/hate, tribalism, and violence, are not technologies lol

It's biology, it's encoded in DNA, the results of evolution.

[โ€“] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Is evolution not technology? Plus, a lot of this stuff is used as tools, as a means to an end, rather than just purely emotional reptilian response. A lot of it IS reptilian, but a lot of it is also vestigial, as a conscious tool, especially when used by a society, rather than a single biological person.

It's complicated, for sure. But so are the rest of the usages of old technology.

Back to the topic of biology vs technology, though, violence strictly speaking, is an abstract concept of events. We evolved it as a categorization or idea through the technology of language and conceptualization. The instinct in certain parts of our brains is biology, absolutely (and arguably also technology). But violence as a tool, as a means, I argue, is absolutely technology, in the same way that fire, or hunting, or fast food is technology.

If it is something developed, used, and can be moved past, I'd argue that it can be seen as technology. It doesn't have to be electronic or even physical to be technology. Like farming methods, social structures, government, and even language.

I'm not saying they aren't biological, that's a different subject. But those things are absolutely technologies. Just very primitive ones.... That we still use.