On Wed Nov 26 2014 at 19:02:49 Pieter <pietervanboheemen@gmail.com> wrote:
-- You guys are starting to think like artists. I guess exactly the same questions where addressed in Andy Gracy's Drosophila Titanus project or our Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award winner Jallila Esaidi's bullet proof skin: www.da4ga.nl/?p=157
Our obsession with "optimizing" nature is such a great example of our own naive lack of understanding of what these antropocentric actions lead to, it nearly becomes ironic.
I personally don't get this attitude. Nature is not optimized to reflect the goals of humanity, I don't see why we should expect it. Sure we don't understand a lot, but our "obsession with optimizing nature" is probably the most basic thing about humans. It's why we left caves, started agriculture, invented science, medicine and space travel. It's what engineers are for.
I don't see why our actions shouldn't be antropocentric (after all, who else are we to primarily care about?), but I'll agree that they shouldn't be stupid. Life is strong, it will endure pretty much anything we can throw at it now and in the near future. We're dangers to ourselves, not to the planet. The Earth will be just fine even without us here. But that's again just antropocentric thinking ;).
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