Techné

Etymologically, it is the root of many English words, such as 'technology,' 'technique,' 'technical' or 'technician.' Similarly, 'art' is the root of such similar-in-meaning words as 'artificial,' 'artifice,' or 'artful.' Architect has roots in both.

'Techné' is the opposite of the Greek 'physica', root of physical, which is usually translated as 'that which is found, or grown' - the natural world, essentially.

I find this etymology fascinating, because it provides insight into some seeming contradictions.

• There is a common belief that humans and human actions are not natural, but it's probably only because anything we do (with our hands) is built - techné
• Art is considered a spiritual or mystical vocation, whereas technology is considered dehumanizing...but they are really the same thing! A machine is sculpture with a purpose. (and Pedro's mission here was done before he started, since science is just a method or technique!)
• The ethics of biotechnology, nanotechnology, or genetic engineering. These are all techné, but, as we've learned from biology these 'arts' were all created first by other organisms: physica!
• Politics, markets, and religions: Are the systems we use for organizing of human behavior built? Or grown? Or something in between? F. A. Hayek would say they've evolved

In the most general sense, life is art, AKA, techné. The structures which we call organisms are all built. Teeth, nails, tendrils, vascular systems, rhibosomes, mitochondria, enzymes and other proteins, chloroplasts, even DNA are all just integrated tools used in concert to collect and sort energy. Words like texture give away the similarity.

Techné and physica aren't opposites at all, but the Greeks just didn't have the tools (or arts) to recognize that the difference is only one of scale.