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Maybe you get excited about this kind of stuff. I do.

I really get excited about it.

There's a thing called biomimicry.

And what it is is...

Sorry. Sorry. it there's a thing called biomimicry and what it is is sorry this important

scientific philosophical point I'm gonna make it you start giggling no it's good it's so

cool here's what it is um like designers look to nature now and they learn things.

Okay.

And they're like, wow, look how this is design.

That's amazing.

And they tell themselves, there is no designer, but look at the design.

There's a shark's skin, for instance, a particular shark's skin, the way the pattern of

the skin works, it repels bacteria.

And so they're taking that pattern and using it adapting it to hospital

surfaces for instance so you don't have to use some of these chemicals and it's incredible

it's amazing so they're like that's we never could have invented that we discovered but it's

interesting i heard a woman talking about it she doesn't believe in god she's like well it's hard for us to look at nature and learn from it because we know there's no

intelligence behind it like wow if you would just allow the obvious you could learn so much more

that's why you should allow the obvious because then you could reverse engineer things like why is it this way and learn so much more they That's why you should allow the obvious, because then you could reverse engineer things and go, why is it this way and learn so much more. They keep finding case after case

after case like, wow, we never would have designed that. Nature, capital N, it's just amazing.

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