…our fatal tendency to set up something of our own
contriving in the place of nature.
In a half-sentence, the story of why I am in such a pickle, academically. Because as a biologist who wants biology to become engineering, and an engineer who wants engineering to become more like biology, I’m always contriving complex and inexplicable things. Or perhaps wishing people would try to contrive things they don’t understand. Which is the way nature does it: understanding ex post facto, if at all.
Yet backwards as that seems, it’s backwards like a fox. Or something.
Go read these, and the rest of Cosma’s reviews, and buy some books while I set to writin’ an’ cipherin’ on the subject.
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