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• It has occurred in the distant past that similar creative discoveries spontaneously and simultaneously emerge from parts of the world removed and out of contact from one another. Why this happens is speculation but it is easy to look at the possible causes. **Observation of technologies in the natural world** must have accounted for a great deal of influence. People observed nest building, digging, a floating insect, the bending arm, the joint of a crab claw. These are a few of the thousands of observations that were doubtlessly effective in opening insights. Would humans have developed aircraft without flying insects and birds, milkweed seeds, or maple samara as models, or submarines without fish and porpoise, tension bridges without spiderwebs? Probably so, but it likely would have taken... (查看原文)

  Joan 2024-07-28 20:48:02

• 8-3 Any form evolving to a better solution, a more adoptive design, follows a path that only rises. The evolving form begins developing at some low point, the path takes it constantly to higher ground, en route there are many branching divisions that lead to other hills or mountains; some may be high; still others may have towering possibilities. The choice at many branches is determined only by chance. Once the design is upon the slope, to turn around is impossible because the adoptive process must lead only to a “better” solution, or higher up. When the peak is surmounted development must stop, for the design has reached its maximum form. Other forms may be abandoned on the path for the adoptive process has ceased through disuse. (查看原文)

  Joan 2024-07-28 20:50:57

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