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Biomimicry, or "Nature Did it Better"
Inspiration and re-iteration.
Inspiration is but divine, how is it that someone today invents something which was possible 500 years ago, but no one invented it 500 years ago. Or how can we control and ensure we invent everything thats possible today. In fact we have no control over inspiration, we just seek it, and sometimes its revealed to us and sometimes its not. The difficulty for a man who restricts him self in believing only in that which is tangible, is to understand this inspiration and other non tangible dimensions like love, pain, beauty. How is it that everyone recognises beauty but we cannot codify it to say a combination of elements produces beauty...
By re-iteration I mean when we look at the world around us and refine or re-invent whats around us whether natural or man made. This is drawn from a collection of data/information we absorb by looking at the world around us. This is to some extent in our control, although we don't have control over what we remember. We can record everything but its relevance we might not remember or recognise when we are trying to utilise it to come up with something 'new'. For example a chair and wheels combined into a chair with wheels.
It evident that today we have a lot of re-inventors who use developing technology to refine or update designs, it's driven by new technologies and a combination of existing ones. We have very few people who are inspired and who come up with not just original but revolutionary and innovative designs.
When the future studies us as history, what will they see and who will hey study?
Great post. The secret, as you said, is in the systems approach, which nature does so well. What computer programs are you familiar with that "mimic the natural world."? -Bill