Mother Nature has the awesome R&D laboratory of her own. She has invented time-tested and trusted algorithms, optimized structures, designs, processes, tools, techniques, means and measures that humans can only try to emulate and imitate, but hardly reach that level of optimization. Living organisms are all unique by some way or other, the structures of cellular organization, the architecture of biogenic structures and substances generate wonder! The lotus's surface, bee hive, spiders silk, jet propulsion in cuttle fish, biological batteries, bioluminescence, aerodynamics, hydrostatics, ultrasonics, are few among thousands of awe-inspiring things! Beyond individual levels some ecosystems also present before us exquisite examples of efficiency, sufficiency, resilience and innovation. Mother Nature naturally can be our "model, measure and mentor" in creating new inventions and solving problems that humanity is facing and struggling with. I invite some interesting and illuminating discussions that will be expected to last long...........
One way may be looking at other cultures and how they interact with nature.
"The relevance of traditional knowledge systems for ethnopharmacological research: theoretical and methodological contributions"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2993655/
I cannot agree less with you. Nature has been like the furnace that produces algorithms and systems tested well with the heat of time. Even today, most of the systems developed are inspired directly from nature itself. Take the sonar technology from bats, the concept of a streamlined body from birds, neural networks from the very structure of our brains, and much more. We have always been inspired by nature and still seek. Nature has always been like the library of ideas where people go for ideas and inspiration, be it Leonardo Da Vinci or Vincent Van Gogh.
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