Experience

When you view nature as a single entity, what do you see? what do you think? Everyone will see something different. What they see differently is dependent upon the culmination of all their life's work up to that moment. The images a quantum scientist would see would differ greatly from that of an actor. The beautiful thing about this is that no matter who you are, you live and breath nature. Nature has an infinite amount of secrets for person's from all walks of life. I truly believe that nature, or rather, life, is a perfectly existing system. And at this point in time, in regards to leading edge technology, I feel that brain power is approaching a plateau. What I believe is that we, the human race, will no longer be able to make discoveries with our brain's alone. This is obviously something I feel that will plateau in a couple hundred years. Back to my point that nature is perfectly existing: everything we will ever need to know is positioned right in front of our faces. Through this perfection, we, as human's, should derive the schematics. The most brilliant example of this that I can think of is a leaf, just like the one at the header of this page. Allow me to elaborate: Leafs and plant petals have dynamic coping strategies in place for water distribution. This means that, over a period of time, water is obviously absorbed and distributed to the different zones of the leaf. What you might not know, is at the cellular level, there exists a greater intelligence. This intelligence reacts to the stresses nature puts on it, in this example: damage. If an insect were to chomp in the middle of the leaf, what good would it serve if in the middle of this leaf, resides the only passage way for water to travel through from side A to get to side B. This one passage way is destroyed, thus rendering the other side of the leaf helpless. Side B of the leaf dies, collapsing the entire system (entire leaf dies). What really goes on is the leaf has mechanisms in place that cope with this issue. If a portion of the leaf is destroyed, new "paths" for the water are manufactured, thus transporting water to areas that otherwise would be starved. I find discoveries like this to be most appealing because it can effectively be applied to computer systems. If a system, or a network (in this sense, to any non-technical readers, a whole bunch of computers interconnected performing one duty), is performing services which typically require all computers to be running, what happens if one computer crashes? The whole system dies. Clearly much better strategies are in place so this doesn't happen. BUT, in some cases, such as information distribution, where certain demographic areas require certain servers to be up and running, this could be the case. Just like the leaf I spoke of first, if the main gateway is destroyed, the entire system dies, unless there is a coping strategy in place. Many systems have a coping strategy in place, but, researchers analyzed the strategy of a leaf, it turns out it is more efficient than strategies in place today. Now, to make the grand point of this post: nature is a perfectly executing system, anything you see in nature is perfectly unfolding. To derive from it a strategy, or schematics, it will inevitably be a more efficient and better approach to whatever you're going to accomplish. I believe this could be the first step in overcoming this brain plateau. I don't believe that we're incapable of thinking brilliant ideas, what I do think is that were approaching the limit, and we're going to need to become better observers than thinkers. I really am seeing life through different eyes and these are the baby steps. My quest is to cite and formulate strategies derived from nature, and employ them in systems, or programs I write. I have an idea that I am going to expand upon and it involves the human body's way of coping with problems. We are, after all, subjects of our environment: nature. We, too, are governed by this perfection, however, I feel that in this modern world, this thought escapes the mind. Embrace it.