Philosophy Ramblings 

The idea of a "natural human lifespan" relies on separating "natural tool-use" from "unnatural tool-use"

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re: Philosophy Ramblings 

Like, we're symbiotically entangled with dozens of other creatures and, like many other species, adapt and change our local ecosystem according to our needs, and use tools creatively and in response to our situations

There's a fundamentally Romantic idea of 'man in nature' as some achievable ideal-state lying at the base of all this which I'm sure Rousseau would go wild for (pun intended)

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