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Originally Posted by SinJin I would say yes. From a purely scientific standpoint, the theory of everything governs the universe. |
This depends on your conception of natural. Governed and created within the physical laws which define the universe? Yes, they are certainly natural.
If natural means "not created by humans" then no, they are not natural.
So your question is asking it seems: are humans somehow beyond the scope of physical law? The answer is clearly no.
Cars are cultural artifacts, and all of culture is a phenomena of propagating probability waves. Ideas which have been created- and then passed on- are part of the probability function. New ideas are lower probability, and may or may not contribute to the future of civilization or be adopted by the masses.
There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of small ideas, "memes" if you will, or "low probability events" which are stored within a car, within the tempering of the steel, the curve of its hood, the tolerance of the valves within the engine block. These low probability events that work are passed on in the instructional paradigm of the universities, and more are passed on from coworker to coworker either implicitly (seeing others ideas) or explicitly (instruction about how to achieve things in an effective manner)
HOwever every single one of these ideas, these improvements, these designs, existin within the framework of our physical law and arose from conjunctions of events which began as quantum phenomena.