Comment by FrustratedMonky
17 hours ago
What does it matter when something was realized versus its anthropomorphism?
Didn't some guy use a huge rock as a doorstop before someone realized it was gold and worth a lot.
It was gold before it was realized it was gold. What did it's discover matter? It didn't change what it was. The worth as 'gold' is totally superimposed by the humans.
It means that if you remove the meaning humans give to to, it's much easier to explain it as a coincidence, something that is produced naturally and it just happens to have the right property (for any value of property).
There are a bunch of stories about people using valuable rocks as a doorstop, meteorites, gold, amber etc