Ferdinand Vogler
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

Great observation. I like the examples you gave. Especially Lungman I did not know before.

If we go all the way back in history even those cave people were copying to certain degree. Family Flintstone were dipping their fingers into mud paint and making their hands draw certain shapes based on what they had seen in nature. At some point that tribe agreed on a shape for “cow” and other cave men started using that symbol. One guy might have drawn longer horns, another maybe rather short hooves. But who’s the real creator? That’s exactly the chicken-egg-debate I was mentioning.

If you want to get really philosophical about this: aren’t we all copies? We inherit a mixture of genes from our parents. Going back to the point of our creation, let’s zoom in to the cellular level. Even mitosis is some form of copying. But I think that’s going a little too far off-topic now.

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