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From the Stone Age to the present, the progress of man has been inseparably linked to the invention of tools. The process of invention itself can be used to stratify levels of intelligent use of tools. According to Bergson, invention begins with the faculty of inference, which "consists in an inflection of past experience in the direction of present experience...
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The ability to employ inference is exemplified by the use of tools by non-human beings for which there is no evidence of manufacture or invention, only the appropriation of existing tools in present circumstances. The actual creation of new tools whose manufacture varies indefinitely and becomes increasingly complex to the point of tools which make tools, however, undeniably indicates intelligence...
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