…One of the recurring themes is efficiency in natural systems.
In relating Olivier Hamant some days ago – https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/117058883580080128 – it’s not that life doesn’t do efficiency. Far from it. It does it to an exquisite degree that far outpaces our technologies. Photosynthesis for example is orders of magnitude more efficient than solar power generation.
However, an animal that chooses efficiency *at the expense of* robustness dies.
And Olivier’s thesis is that that’s what our culture is doing
Jonathan Schofield
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