« In the evening of the third day, scattering away a group of hippos, as we were moving towards our homes in the fiery colors of the sunset, these words appeared suddenly, without any foreknowledge, not even looking for them : ‘ RESPECT of LIFE ’ » Albert Schweitzer (An apparition as he was looking for a universal ethics.) Contents : Abstract Methodology Philosophical premises Scientific premises Systematic premises General principle of biomimethical action Practical biomimethics Yacouba Sawadogo’s reconquest on the desert Managing ‘pest’ & ‘weeds’ in permaculture Agro-sylvo-pastoralism to restore the so-called ‘agricultural soils’ Conclusion Some bibliographical references Abstract The aim of this presentation is to understand some laws of natural life and expose : biomimethics : a systemic approach where nature is the local base for : -> an ethics’ model for sustainability and higher education, -> transformative and adaptative mind patterns, -> for the good of men, of organisations , of all living beings. Methodology The way driving to biomimethics starts with the evidence of the existential choice: the love of life, and with its immediate consequence: the vision of an individual well-being. From this personal interest for its own life and with the aim of a durable well- being, an empathetic awareness arises, towards oneself at first, and then towards all the living beings. The respect of life for oneself and the awareness of this founding condition for all of the alive gives the main contribution to a vision where the shared call for personal well-being depends on a respectful integration in the group. Then, quite obviously, in a holistic understanding of the world, this vital and shared property gives birth to biomimethics, with and from all the respect due to life and nature: a universal systematic of principles for action, founding general values due for a practical and local adaptation, in good intelligence, for the highest good of the individual and of all of the alive. The focus on nature changes from a dual specialization towards a global systematic where constructive interactions are dominant in the understanding of the roles of the multiple members within the group. With the mimetic application of the operating procedures found within nature, any action draws therefore its inspiration from the most sustainable system ever : the life at work in nature. And the empathetical connexion with nature enhances a school of life with prominent expression of self, preparing the ground for improved quality of life and upgrading states of awareness. During this self development, the respect by choice is fundamental, vouching for the expanding quality of evolution. Fear or destruction are still founding way too many intentions and actions and they lead to a contraction, a vital restriction of systems and a decline of our societies. Through biomimethics, the fruits of free will are grown out of respect, for the profit of every one as well as for the good of all the community. Therefore, man comes again in a dominant position within nature, as a result of its accountable behavior in driving the world affairs. The fields of application are too many to list all of them: - Permaculture, - Ecology and protective Geomorphology, - Management of organisations, - Social actuation of entrepreneurship, - New learning schemes, heuristique, - Biology, - Health, psychology, personal empowerment, - Mathematics, physics, history, ... Philosophical premises The history of sciences underwent a huge turmoil with the philosophical Milesian school. At the turn of the 6th century BC, these pre-Socratic philosophers of Ancient Greece innovated in terms of mental representation, a new way in the build-up of knowledge, hence giving birth to physics, the study of nature : when the mind spies the harmonies showed within the world. The mythical tales founding the origins of all phenomena were replaced by innovative concepts. Scientific enquiries start developing and planet earth is placed in the center of the universe through the thought of Anaximander. During eclipses, the shadow of the earth is showing a round shape, suggestive of its roundness and the sun and the stars are encircling too the theatre of the vital display surrounding our elders. In Delphi, put at the frontispiece of the temple where presides the enthusiastic and sibylline soothsayer, the word of one of the seven wise men sounds like the essential behavior at the time : « Know thyself ». Man must explore and understand his own being. At that time, Anaximander develops a very innovative idea: the « arche,» the originating substance that encompasses and continuously values all things, generated from an « apeiron,» a support of unlimited extend and duration for all ephemeral phenomena. This concept will be used later in the Quantum Field Theory and Max Born took the same term for an accurate representation of the mathematical formulations of his fellow physicist Werner Heisenberg : reality as an emergence coming out of a field of potentialities. In the 4th century BC, the Delphi sanctuary is still shining brightly and governing the world as Plato will remind us in a cautious tribune to Apollo « who is guiding the human kind and ruling, through his priesthood, the main part of public affairs ». The supposed atheism of the master philosopher Socrates will lead to a capital sentence. The day before Plato joined in as a follower, Socrates had a dream where a swan would rest on his knees, grow its plumage and eventually take off... And thus it is that Plato will then found his Academy in Athens and lay down the Good as the natural ground. He praises moderation, as the source of wisdom and virtue, learning from the intelligible and its forms to connect with the good beyond the sensible, and he also attempts to define logically the best way to govern common life. But his somehow political ethics will draw him into a few troubles. A moral code more respectful of life is nevertheless starting to arise: God that he is, Apollo himself, must go into exile to pay for his murder of the monster Python, the emissary of Gaia. In Plato’s academy, Aristotle becomes a teacher, before he founds, for the sake of truth, his Lyceum : the Peripatetic naturalist school where he used to teach as he was walking. Making his own out of the Delphi’s word inviting to an introspective research, and giving up with divination and superstitions, Aristotle holds on its perceptive and cognitive skills to understand the principles of the sensible world. Comprehensibility and congruence are not confined to logic : thanks to his intuition and heightened sensibility, his pragmatism grows richer, in a distinctive way compared to Descartes, who stayed in his rational thinking, consistently with the powerful and scary church that was owning the matters of soul at his time. Aristotle is studying nature with such an acuity that it will even blow Darwin’s mind at the height of his glory. Aristotle sees the immanence in the alive as a hylomorphism, an essence intimately attached to the body of the being. Looking for the good of man, the main goal in life as such, his ethics stays in a practical approach, a principle of wise action, useful in everyday’s life. In his actual dualism, Aristotle makes a distinction between potentiality and actuality. These ideas will arise much later again, with the Quantum Mechanics wave function of Erwin Schrödinger which gives the probabilities of an event, a wave packet that will shrink into actuality through observation. And so , the physicist Werner Heisenberg to complement Plato’s idealism and Aristotle’s realism : « In Quantum Physics experiments, we deal with things and facts that are just as real as any phenomenon in daily life. But atoms and elementary particles themselves are somehow not so real ; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities, rather than one of things or facts ... The probability wave ... which means a tendency for something, a quantitative version of Aristotle’s idea of potential. This introduces to a strange kind of physical reality, in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, between possibility and actuality. » Pupil at first, then research fellow, friend and successor of Aristotle as head of the Lyceum, Theophrastus will extend furthermore this approach teaching the respect of the alive, noticing the sensibility and the rationality of animals, and granting them with an emotional life and a form of psyche. Closer to our actuality, John Stuart Mill suffers from depression at the age of 20. He then rethink his father’s and Bentham’s utilitarianism : his education had made him a wonderful ‘thinking machine’, but, in the same mouvement, it had cut him off his inner self, drained out any form of sensibility. From then on, he will try to reconcile logic and emotional life, and raise its own vitality of the heart ! And as a result, for many ancient and more contemporary philosophers, a more obvious focus appears towards contemplation or meditative exercises : they drew inspiration from visions, dreams, special states of awareness and they infused their philosophy with the understanding resulting from their personal experiences. Bentham’s rational philosophy has died and the comfort of a few cannot be justified and paid through the pain of the many others : the net balance of well- being is a very poor foundation in the build-up of a social morality ... The technocratic control inherited from Descartes is also short, exhilarated at first but ending exhausted and brainwashed through exaggerated possessiveness of nature, in a knowledge that does not comprehend life and where the dichotomy of science excludes all that cannot be constrained in its views. Yet, the principle of love raises from reasonable ground : Stoics and Christians are finally agreeing on this, as a central point of concern in the view of a stable social life, a key nutrient of the soul and thriving soil of a blooming mind. In the same way, David Hume recently founded on empathy his natural and rational ethics. Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, the horrors of war undermined the conquering Darwinism and rushed Albert Schweitzer to express new ethical bases. Following the example of life, his absolute ethics claims its active character. The good of man is now understood as a global concept of the rational and sensible individual, seen as a mixture of different substrates : body, soul and mind, social animal and interdependent co-creator, raising gradually from passion in a releasing evolution of enhanced awareness. Seating life at the highest rank and bowing to it in reverence, Dr Schweitzer calls for an equality of respect of all the living beings. According to him, Good is fundamentally grounded in this devoted love of the alive, which is the source of a profound spiritual relationship to the world. Hence, through a deepening of this self-respect, Albert Schweitzer is inviting everyone of us to meet our inner truth, to know ourselves and understand our own being, in a discovery of the evolutive magnificence inhabiting the alive. Scientific premises The history of sciences underwent a Renaissance at the beginning of the 20th century, despite Lord Kelvin’s concupiscent look at the science of the time that would be quickly completed thanks to little improvements and a few discoveries to come. His radiography of physics was wrong. Starting at first with Plank in 1900, Albert Einstein will then be the main instigator of this firework in 1905, moving up to both front lines of relativity and quantification of photo-electric energetic exchanges. From this famous year, will emerge successively many theoretical extensions in Quantum Mechanics, that will transform the reductionist and mechanical view of the world, inherited from Newton and Descartes amongst others. In 1915, Einstein will extend en 1915 his artwork with the popular and troubling theory of General Relativity that mixes in an inappropriate way, a continuous parametric time in the yoke of a mathematical form, giving birth to the local shape of space-time from all the surrounding and active energy and matter. The consubstantiality idea applied to matter, space and time is nevertheless truly inspiring. But this unclear tangle of quantities distinct in their nature, and of axiomatic hypothesis, stands and stays excluded to this date of other physical descriptions that have nevertheless demonstrated all of their relevance and that have opened vast new fields of scientific exploration. The Grand Unification of gravitation (effects in the continuous space of observations) to the other fundamental interactions (quantified in the space of states of potentialities) is still an ambitious project. And the relativistic effects did join with difficulty in the math of Quantum Mechanics. Yet, the momentum is given. A new physics demonstrate a reality made of potentialities (wave function of Schrödinger) updated in an interaction depending on the observer (shrinking of the wave function). Matter is made vibrational energy (De Broglie) and empties of itself. The vacuum is full of energy and virtual particles show noticeable influence (Casimir effect). Certainties are now reserved and only concern the information that one can get about the studied system which stays itself out of reach in its very essence : being simultaneously particle and wave and pre-existing statistically, in an intrinsic uncertainty (Heisenberg’s principle). This state of superposition hurts the materialist common sense. Unable to accept this new vision of reality, Albert Einstein proposed in 1935 the EPR rebuttal (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen), then expressed in 1964 through the famous John S. Bell’s inequalities. In 1982, Alain Aspect confirms experimentally Quantum Mechanics with pairs of entangled photons and causality now transcends the space of observation. This experiment will then be confirmed and improved, with more ‘massive’ particles (Anton Zeilinger), on larger scales, to the point that causality transcends time (delayed choice of Marlan Scully 1998, mobile devices of Antoine Suarez-Nicolas Gisin 2001). The Quantum Theory is now well established in its non-locality, with the state of superposition, and the co-existence of incompatible observable attributes. Loosing a part of its objectivity, space-time recovers a platitude. As an extra to these major conceptual advances, new myths and superstitions come to birth and expand :
The history of sciences knows a step change in the middle of the 20th century, with Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s views that will focus on the dynamic of interactions, and then create systemics. He will detect complex systems everywhere ! His methodology of analysis is a way to think the organized groups or complex objects, a global approach, with different perspectives according to the different levels of organisation and that mainly takes into account the relationship and interactions between the distinctive parts of an open ensemble. An isolated system does not exist and its evolution is not separable from its environment : it cannot be cut off the whole. The classical dichotomy, the specialization are dismissed as they are sources of cognitive bias or because of the exaggerated simplification resulting from its intrinsic reductionism. Interactions are teaching the researcher on the functions that complies an entity within a group and they produce a whole that cannot be shrunk to the sum of its parts. Therefore, the holist properties are back on track in the field of study and, in doing so, arises a new perspective, a world conceived as a unit from where emerging general principles and similar regulating mechanisms appear in various environments. Conceptual isomorphisms, laws and models can be transferred in a useful way so to open new spaces of trans-disciplinary creativity. The intelligence of processes grows from the retro-action loops, to self- organisation (shown by Ilya Prigogine in the dissipative open structures) enhancing the limited principle of classical causality : including teleology or final purpose as an operating basic postulate. Systemics extends the hylomorphism philosophy and science initiated with Aristotle, and completed by Leibniz, Kant or Goethe and his metamorphosis of plants. In the systemics’ toolbox, we can find analogy, metaphor, isomorphism or structural similarity, and poetry ! The lack of precision of a transposition is not a definitive sentence for its fertility, or its relevance and graph charts or animations are ways to describe very skilfully some facets of reality. As a new foundation for scientific enquiry, intersubjectivity is seated at the heart of systemics, a globalizing and aggregating viewpoint that saves as much useful information as possible. Intuition, imagination, creativity or heuristics, even serendipity, regain the place that they used to occupy at the very beginning of the history of sciences. To complete the point, the possible applications are many: communication, social sciences, psychology (Palo Alto school), ecology, economics, management of organisations, philology, strategy, education, information technology ... General principle of biomimethical action The fundamentals of biomimethics are now exposed : love, empathy, respect of life, the main place of interactions within an open system, a holist comprehension of the world, a vision of social and personal harmony. Turning back to nature to understand how it works, life reveals itself through its actions. The glance is renewed and helps to reproduce its systematic with the purpose of a respectful integration. In its logic, with order, laws and cooperation, nature expresses life. Tough their superimposed and simultaneous occurence does not always make them very obvious, various actions will be distinguished as follows. Work and Growth All of the alive is at work and grows, in rhythms and continuously. The natural balances are dynamic : instables and regulated in their movement. A stasis or stagnation is a deathly or necrotizing state. Growth is universal and an inescapable principle of existence, it can be expressed at different levels : the single body is not the only facet of it. Nature also does this working in a diversification, a creative adaptation according to the different environments or eras. Man is also skilful in respecting this growth principle beyond the matter: in his knowledge and comprehension of the universe, in his relationships, in his empathetical sensibility, in his well-being, in his awareness, with times of expansive and fast progression and others of dormancy and maturing. Nutrition and Nourishment Nutrition of all the living beings is provided according to individual preferences and needs. A digesting process ensures the appropriate transformation into nutrients and leads to health and well-being. The emergence of the mammals lactation, available from birth, is still a beautiful and fascinating evolutionary challenge, with the colostrum phase that takes place on the first days : a true miracle that modern doctors keep on exploring through its benefits and use, as for example, with the oral vaccine protecting from polio. Regeneration This amazing ability starts in the basic metabolism of the smallest cell which walls allow for the useful nutrients to enter, and make sure that the metabolite waste is expelled. Hence, quoting the word of Janine Benyus : « Life creates conditions conducive to Life. » In nature, recycling is a perfect process: the waste of one becomes the nutriment of others. In the globalization, the possibility for a trash space disappears ; but man is so fast in inventing waste, so as Jean-Paul Sartre pushing back his scrap in a hypothetical social or philosophical nothingness. Yet, The Freudian and Jungian personal and collective unconscious were already well defined ! And nothingness comes down to a conceptual dizzy spell, filled with awareness as soon as it is detected. Nature abhors a vacuum and therefore nothingness happens to be excluded. Hence, with the roundness and the finite dimensions of our planet, man is quickly found living on a pile of garbage. That might be their hidden purpose : to wake-up the human being and get him back to his accountability in his contribution to the alive. Before the so-called modern man, Nature makes no trash and a good use of everything : « Nothing to excess » as says an old word in the Delphi’s sanctuary. Healing To ensure comfort, this natural and surprising upgrading process is to be found at an individual level as well as at the level of the whole system :
Some regulating mechanisms play an important protective role controlling excesses in their moderation effect, through interconnexions that sustain members inside of a population or ecosystems, when members take it in turns to provide and support other beings : such as ivy which sap gives some sugar to bees during winter or aphids of various species of plants that are successively appearing during the vegetative growth period and provide the perpetuation to the hover flies. The coming of a snow coat often precedes a penetrating cold. Likewise the trees that cover their soil with leaves before winter, that will insulate from cold their roots and protect and nourish the aerobic micro-organisms living in the ground, that supply mineral nutrients and maintain a beneficial humidity. Fulfillment of needs Often in combination with the function of protection, the fulfillment of needs is observed in the harmonious layout of many physiologies, for example : cilia and eyebrows to protect the eyes in case of rain fall or sweat, nails or scratches protecting the sensible endings on the feet or the fingers, hair protecting from dust the respiratory system, a hard enamel against abrasion for more resistant teeth, sebaceous glands limiting the drying out of the skin or the burn of the areas exposed to friction. The fulfillment of needs in nature is easier to discern at a systemic level. Many plants are bio-indicators of the characteristic of the soil, of an ecosystem and help in restoring the most conducive conditions for life deployment: they can be seen as a form of healing within the ecosystem. Perpetuation Healing, nutrition and protection contribute in the survival that will extend beyond the individuals through reproduction of the species. And regeneration and the total recycling are also essential in ensuring the perpetuation. Therefore, all the organization of life participes in its continuation in a spirit of cooperation and harmony that combines billions of cells inside a single organism, or billions of organisms inside an ecosystem. And that is the purpose of biomimethics : to help in the replication of this working intelligence within all of the alive, in order to recover a harmonious integration within it. How to articulate the fundamentals of biomimethics ? The anchor point of the model settles down on the why, with the question of the existential choice. And this fundamental choice, often unconscious, hidden or repressed, does not raise from a social morality, a relative notion of good or bad. It cannot raise out of fear, which is in essence contrary to life with the contraction and the withdrawal resulting from apprehension. Life in itself is emergence, engagement, co-ordinated momentum and expansion within space and time. The love of life is the founding choice. It starts with the love of everyone for its own life, in an empathetic inner movement and with the wake-up of awareness. From this « Yes to be » will immediately come the answer to the following question that will build up the vision, the project of each life. And the call for well- being prevail naturally as the essential root of existence. To achieve the vision of a dynamic harmony providing a durable and best integration, taking in charge all the levels of a person : body, soul and mind, and with a holist comprehension of the world, the respect of life becomes the choice of the heart as well as the rational choice. Empathy is still guiding us, focusing this time towards the alive, helping us to grow the awareness of this sharing of a common heritage: the love of life and the respect that invite everyone to biomimethical actions. From this natural agreement will bloom the values: of accountability, sharing, respect, integrity or inclusion, with an essential expression of everyone in a school of life giving the sense, teaching awareness, nourishing it from the choices, from meeting and understanding of other beings and of nature. This opening movement, for the common good of self and of the alive, initiates the first steps of an ever ascending journey, in a build-up of the being with mind patterns full of vitality, through a self poiesis of the soul, complementary of the biomimethical proposition. Self-poiesis is defined as follows : a practice of human awareness, through action and choices to make, where the subject creates and wakes-up in himself the chosen principle. Otherwise, the subject becomes the object and the result or product of others, of circumstances, of the practice of a role or function, of an environment of life. This practice settles down on the laws of mind : what is placed within awareness will grow within it : - We become what we think we are. - What we fear comes onto us, - Also, what we hope for! Setting an example creates a pattern ; we draw it to us attuning to it. Therefore, the fruits of free-will take all their savour, in this human skill to mould oneself, create circumstances, an environment, relationships and states of mind. Biomimethics is guiding us to welcome more and more the spirit of life, change our points of view, enjoy the reality and find new ways to transform what is within our power : in a spirit of freedom, with a creative opening full of poetic intuition, in an aesthetic pleasure and a joyful expansion, according to an entertaining diversity where to wander with arousal of our curiosity. How can we practice biomimethics, and be more respectful of life attuning to it ? The answer will come from the clever transposition of a universal systemic to the local conditions, and the study of the relationships in the local ecosystem. At first, it is necessary to observe and respect the environment to understand and help nature in its work. In this collusion, it is of first importance to let or to make the nature or the natural principles do its work in order to organise a change. Fighting against life is an exhausting and endless task. Carrying on with the work of nature and focusing its intelligence in the desired direction, with a little patience, will progressively come to a durable transformation with minimum effort and achievements that will go way beyond expectations. Here are a few guidelines to start with ease the biomimethical process :
Yacouba Sawadogo’s reconquest on the desert The best experts stayed puzzled in their reflection about the progression of the desert in Sahel. International commissions studied the question for a long time, did search and try some possible solutions to fight against this plague that is swallowing gradually this sub-Saharan part of Africa. In vain ! Their fight against the desert did not produce significant results. On his side, Yacouba Sawadogo loves life. And in his village, life is a synonym of water. The water that comes rarely to wet at times with a few drops the lands hardened like a rock. Yacouba loves water. Instead of fighting against the whole desert, Yacouba decides to attract water. He is having the dream of the water staying long enough in his land, in order to grow his mil in the best beautiful manner. Therefore, with his pickaxe, he digs holes in order to retain water. And then Yacouba goes further, against the general opinion of the wise men of his village, that call him crazy, that mock his strange ideas, and that swear that he is going to be punished by the spirits, that he should not ridicule the old traditions. Yacouba wants to increase the effect of his holes with the incorporation in each of them of a few termites. Of course, he has the idea to offer them some feeding as well hosting them, and he places some wood splitter up to pieces, some organic matter too to feed his guests. The termites do their work and build a dense web of tunnels, ready to infiltrate as much water as possible. Yacouba has also the idea to build small walls around his lands, to keep water for a longer time. And when the rain season comes, he seeds in his holes that have become alive and fertile, some mil but also and more importantly some trees, to feed even more termites, and preserve the soil become wet again and full of life from the burn of the sun. Rapidly, his method gives him great results and triple productivity compared to the usual production of mil. Therefore, others in the village start copying his method, they come and learn with him, and all the village is quickly transformed, and after more time the whole region ... The forest is born again and after a few decades, Yacouba can enjoy the fruit of his ideas, in the fresh shadow of his trees, when the termites keep on working to retain more water, listening to the singing of tenth of birds that now inhabit again the region and benefit from the restored life in this area of Burkina-Faso. Managing ‘pest’ & ‘weeds’ in permaculture Curiously, the ‘pests’ did not always get that bad consideration that they should be exterminated. And referring to the weeds, their status changed a few decades ago with the apparition of chemicals on the market. In permaculture, they are better considered... The weeds are used to determine what is the quality and the state of the soil. They are indications like the ‘pests’, as they always have a special function within the ecosystem. The understanding of this function will help to understand how to reduce the action of the ‘pests’ and limit, stabilize, or redirect their impact. The aphids are mainly embarrassing for the growth of plants. With their withdrawal of sap, they take some of the energy and cause protective reactions of the plant, that reinforces the superficial cells, and consequently, slows down their development. An ideal regulation can come through the action of hover flies, that lay eggs close to the aphids, settling the future meat safe for their larvae. This regulation is good enough : a few tens of hover flies are enough for 3000 m2 of raspberry bushes, as it is in the wild. The diversity of plants and also aphids help to maintain some active hover flies for the whole year long. In the garden, the model is to copy this plant diversity, and for example to tolerate an elder, to protect the raspberry bushes (and produce a delicious sirup). In this multiplication of the points of balance and regulation, and in acceptance of a small deduction on the harvest, the ‘pests’ are well controlled. More, the diversity is also a model and a refuge for the bad years of great misbalance when a ‘pest’ devastates a whole fringe of the production. The example of slugs is similar. They form a digestive organ for putrid parts of plants and mushrooms, and they are useful to the activation of specific spores, but they can terribly harm some crops in gardens or in the fields. Then, the predators of slugs will be invited in the neighborhood with some compost, some decaying wood or with a cover of split wood. The slugs can stay remote with crucifer plants that turns them too greedy to affect the vegetation of other youngest plants. A few chicken will also regulate the slugs thanks to an intelligent organisation of the place. Regarding the weeds, a coverage with plants, or straw or even canvas sheets is useful to limit or suppress their seeding. The first function of weeds is often to cover the ground, give some ventilation and protect the soil. This covering of soil has to be made according to the needs of the ground, with hay or straw or wood, or a green fertilizer. All of which will nourish the soil in different ways and preserve from the exhausting weeding work. Else, dandelions or purslane are part of delicious salads from the antique period ! Agro-sylvo-pastoralism to restore the so-called ‘agricultural soils’ The deterioration of soils has accelerated with modern agricultural practices, by ignorance, as a result of heavy mechanization and with the abuse of chemistry. Therefore, the soils have gradually lost most of their biological life : with the acidification and inorganic mineralization resulting from chemical inputs or from irrigation, as well because of an excessive working of the land, burying the aerobic part of the superficial wildlife and exhibiting to air and to the heat of the sun, the anaerobic part of the biological life of the ground. The biological life indicators for the soils are heavily falling, in a spiral downwards, and fertility is decreasing : crops are far from reaching the levels that one could expect from the selected seeds. Consequently, to solve this matter and reverse this catastrophic downwards movement, new practices are showing their effectiveness :
Conclusion In biomimethics, the rational build-up of noble values may distract us from the heart of the method : love, empathy, the relationship giving sense. Beyond the functional analysis of the alive, empathy is a guide, a way to let beauty touch our hearts and be moved by the sensations, delighted in the sound of singing birds, aroused by the smells, calmed by the vibrant freshness of a forest, inspired by the mystery of life, and journeying within the tissue of existence to perceive in there a specific teaching, to be resonant of our personal essence, and develop through action in awareness some states of being-ness, some enhanced presence, in the freedom of the school of life, building up an evolution, a transformation, a way without destination where the path arises from lucid movement of a character tempered in the love of the alive. Through this imitation of nature at work, through this biomimethics, the modern man may recover the wholeness of his humanity, ground himself in the values conducive to a durable and dynamic future, arise and dress again the word Human with a capital letter, standing up like the symbol 12-thousand-year-old of our roots in Gobekli Tepe, generic of the connected duality, being on earth as in a new hearth, reinstated, in the warm of our heart, within the unity of the world. That is all the hope of biomimethics : To make in our hearts sound the preferred tune of Hervé Coves : « Life is beautiful ! » Some bibliographical references Albert Schweizer : ‘La civilisation et l’éthique’: Yacouba Sawadogo : ‘l’homme qui a stoppé le désert’: https://youtu.be/nSTV-KcAd_0 . Aristote : ‘Ethique à Nicomaque’. Epictète : (Arrien) ‘Le manuel’ ; ‘Les entretiens’. Pierre Rabhi : ‘Manifeste pour la Terre et l’humanisme’ . Peter Wohlleben : ‘La vie secrète des arbres’. Maître Eckhart : ‘Granum Sinapis’ ( Le grain de Sénevé ) . Farid ad-Din Attâr : ‘La conférence des oiseaux’ . Rupert Sheldrake : ‘The science delusion’ : https://youtu.be/JKHUaNAxsTg . Michel Bitbol : ‘A propos du point aveugle de la science’ (la donation expérientielle) : http://michel.bitbol.pagesperso-orange.fr/POINT_AVEUGLE.pdf . http://michel.bitbol.pagesperso-orange.fr/NEVER_KNOWN.pdf . Sébastien Bourdreux : ‘ humanisme et sciences contemporaines’ : http://www.lerepairedessciences.fr/reflexions/science_et_philosophie_fichiers/ science_humanisme.pdf . François Mulet : Jardin des Peltier, élever le sol: https://youtu.be/3F2tITMPuBE . Christian Baudas : Couverts végétaux sous serres: https://youtu.be/sMIO-x4C7Z8 . Hervé Covès : Gestion holistique des limaces: https://youtu.be/DQ3Da73IGtw . David Mc Kee : Elmer, l’éléphanteau singulièrement bariolé. Alain Connes : Hylémorphismes: signatures acoustiques, localités et géométries non- commutatives. Dean Radin : Effect of collective empathy on correlation of quantum random numbers generators. Carlo Rovelli : Anaximandre de Milet ou la naissance de la pensée scientifique. Laurent Welsch : La relance de la vie du sol : https://youtu.be/3eX5ZYS-CXg. Perrine & Charles Herve-Gruyer : Micro-fermes: https://youtu.be/LZVkPsfYKew . Gérard Ducerf : Plantes bio-indicatrices: https://youtu.be/knkH6lzgNwU . Jean Richepin : ‘Les oiseaux de passage’ par Rémo Gary: https://youtu.be/N4g30V1JvRg . Ilya Prigogine et Isabelle Stengers : ‘La fin des certitudes’ .
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