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And since for k=1, the basis for induction, it is also divisible by 9, then if sum of digits is divisible by 9, then the number is also.

Although it may be a result of cooperation, not neccesssarily adversarial competition.

I agree that sexual selection is form of, or result of intraspecific competition, and as such does not need to be singled out, regardless of the quest...

OK, we went astray a bit, because I didn't envisage this discussion to be primarily about defining clear cut difference between artificial and natural...

OK, so by your definition, natural is something that is performed by non reasonable agents, like non-living things, and we still have to decide what l...

OK, all other technology (apart from AI) is distancing people a bit from nature, since the invention of fire. So, maybe provoking in controlled way su...

I agree that artificiality may have some kind of meaning. For example, artificial smile, artificial lake, artificial insemination, all things that hap...

I don't agree that farmer (ie homo sapiens) is the only being capable of purposeful actions, and that elsewhere in nature only unconscious processes c...

OK, do you think that human beings, along with all of the "artificial" things which they create, need "bringing into the realm of nature"? Aren't we a...

No I don't, and I thought that is what naturists or nudists do. I think naturalist means something else. :lol:

And can you please bring back the discussion "Review of my essays", I think it hit some limit of posting without replies by other members, or maybe th...

Wisdom is one part of the answer, that is a general knowledge one collects through all its life, mostly not systematically, either by trying and faili...

Thanks again, I posted without seeing your answer.

It's OK now, it somehow got sorted. Thanks.