Artificiality versus natural environments.
How can we define the concept ‘artificial’ by remaining true to empiricism and the limitations we’ve imposed upon ourselves concerning reason?
A definition that will be clear and highlight the process of detachment from reality.
Artificial = The point in space/time when the interventions of an organism upon its natural environment begin to affect it more than the environment it intervened upon.
A gradual detachment from nature.
All life intervenes upon tis environment, with every action and every choice - free-will - it makes. But it does not produce artificial environments.
Only man, as far as we know, can intervene upon its environment to a degree that it begins to suffer the consequences of its own interventions more than the environment it intervened upon.
This produces positive, to it, consequences but also, often ignored, negative ones. We call the negative repercussions ‘pollution’, and this would include both the material pollution we all cannot deny but also genetic and linguistic pollutants, which we often and routinely remain ignorant of.
The effect is one of snowballing.
The intervention must be intervened upon to deal with the negative consequences…until the resources no longer suffice, leading to an implosion.
As such, all Empires collapse under the weight of their own interventions and their byproducts.