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[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Okay, but how does that definition not precisely describe a tool?

It sounds like it very much is a tool, in the exact usual sense of the word.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

I guess they think tools are just things like pliers, wrenches, grinders etc. without realizing they themselves are the real tools they made along the way

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

They were guinea pigs. Their "tooliness" is just a side effect of the experiment.

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