I think your understanding of the words "autonomous" and "self-organizing" is somewhat lacking. If there were no humans, those things would not happen.
Further, if it were a byproduct of the presence of humans, then the backpath of invention would be repeated multiple times and spread out across human history, but, for instance, despite the presence of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, magnetite, wood and ink across the planet, the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing were essentially exclusively invented in China and only spread to Europe through trade.
The absence of the four great inventions of china in the Americas heavily implies that technology is not a self-organizing process but rather a consequence of human need and opportunity meeting at cross ends.
For instance, they had the wheel in America, but no plow animals, so the idea was relegated to toys despite wheelbarrows being a potentially useful use for the wheel.
Further, if it were a byproduct of the presence of humans, then the backpath of invention would be repeated multiple times and spread out across human history, but, for instance, despite the presence of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, magnetite, wood and ink across the planet, the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing were essentially exclusively invented in China and only spread to Europe through trade.
The absence of the four great inventions of china in the Americas heavily implies that technology is not a self-organizing process but rather a consequence of human need and opportunity meeting at cross ends.
For instance, they had the wheel in America, but no plow animals, so the idea was relegated to toys despite wheelbarrows being a potentially useful use for the wheel.