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Because it's had millions of years to converge on a near-optimal solution for the environment that it's in. In fact, this is true for all organs within all exta
by daoist_shaman 4y ago
Because it's had millions of years to converge on a near-optimal solution for the environment that it's in. In fact, this is true for all organs within all extant species.
Nature is far more advanced than technology, and I don't believe that we'll ever quite be able to one-up her. Most efforts to do that have seriously harmed us.
We think we know everything, but this dangerous hubris can destroy all planetary life in the blink of an eye.
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- cm2012 4y agoI'll take the other side of that bet. We've one upped nature on hundreds of things, eventually we will be able to improve on nature in every respect.
- ff317 4y agoI'll take the third side of that bet: we've already so fundamentally altered "nature" to our whims, often in very destructive and short-sighted ways, that we're well past the point of trying to pretend like we're preserving any "natural" state of affairs ( https://xkcd.com/1338/ https://xkcd.com/1338/ !). The best we can hope for at this point, barring a severe and abrupt population decline, is to continue engineering our way out of this mess as best we can, with the long-term interests of humans at the forefront.
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- uoaei 4y agoTrust Nature's engineers -- they've been at it for billions of years!
- mrguyorama 4y agoExcept nature's engineers are also working in the bounds and constraints of their system, and occasionally end up building things such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evidence_of_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evid...
- bagacrap 4y agothis comment is so over the top I'm assuming you forgot the /s Also a bicycle beats nature's best solutions for carrying large masses long distances and the phone I'm using has all sorts of supernatural powers.