Feb '23 (edited) in Sustainable Business
Nature Is Not A Machine!
At first sight, this seems obvious, but the reality is we've been treating Nature as if it were a machine we can take apart and learn how it works.
Conventional science is reductionist and specialist in approach. We train scientists to delve into smaller and smaller niche subjects, so they know a lot about a little and precious little about the META, the big picture.
René Descartes, in 'Treatise on Man', p.108, wrote: "I should like you to consider that these functions (including passion, memory, and imagination) follow from the mere arrangement of the machine’s organs every bit as naturally as the movements of a clock or other automaton follow from the arrangement of its counter-weights and wheels."
We tend to operate in silos at the micro level and miss what is becoming clearer and clearer - Nature, and indeed the Universe is made up of systems, not moving parts.
Our own bodies are systems. In the case of our bodies, a resilient system capable of fending off germs, functioning in a wide range of temperatures and variations in the food supply, repairing cuts, compensating in some cases for missing or broken parts, changing metabolic rate with an intelligence that can learn!
Quite elegant!
Deconstructing Nature to learn how it works can only take us so far. To really understand the nature of Nature, we need to start thinking in terms of systems within systems. In our Classroom, we will go into this in more detail in the Reframing Unsustainability course.
As we seek to look at businesses and how they might be reorganized to become more sustainable, these distinctions in how we seek to understand Nature's sustainability and apply this to our unsustainable businesses is an important change in approach.
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Nature Is Not A Machine!
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