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I use the term according to standard usage for a specific mousetrap type, not a guy standing over a mousehole with a large cinder block or any other abstraction!

The dirty little fact being ignored is that ideas and inventions also evolve but because of language and drawing, the intermediate steps do not require a physical implementation. This results in gaps in the intellectual fossil record. There are zero nontrivial inventions that have not evolved.

As a thought experiment I suggest you concoct a plausible story about the invention of the mousetrap that does not involve precursor elements having non-mousetrap functionality.

I can't do your thought experiment because as the article itself points out, anything with mass can at least be used as a paperweight! Everything has functionality for something, therefore if lack of functionallity for ANY use is a requirement for IC then IC cannot exist!

Ideas and inventions do evolve, but they are also intelligently desinged, and I suspect the same may be true of the Earth and all it contains!