Well this can lead to quite a philosophical debate on whether anything is ever truely invented or do we just discover things and refine them over time... usually the things we create are replications of natural things or processes, example: A camera is a replica of the eye.

Then there are more complex things like a mobile phone, but modern smartphones are essentially just incredibly well refined slates for enscribing and messaging (at their most basic use case). Did anyone really invent the slate or did they discover that they could chisel recognizeable symbols into it which others could then interpret.

A computer could be argued to be an immitation of flow of energy, much like a river combined with logic like an abacus (or piles of stones)... if gravity and slope then direction of flow this way, if dam then diversion of flow to an altered result.

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