NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beaver Dam, Sentience, Michio Kaku
6 Apr 2020
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Extending the definition of technology to include animals. In the lectures, we discussed the question of whether or not the definition of technology should be extended to animals. In doing so, we considered that animals do appear to have created things that suggest themselves of technology. For example, the chimpanzee"s use of a branch to extract termites; the beaver"s creation and use of a dam; the bees" creation and use of a bee-hive, etc . We also discussed the fact that, from time to time, some forms of animal technology such as a beaver dam, are improved upon. Such examples may well lead us to suggest that any definition of technology should be extended to include the animal kingdom. In this regard, however, perhaps it is more appropriate to speak of organisms rather than animals, since organism includes animals and thus might be said to include human beings as well.
