Comments by "Aga" (@aga5109) on "Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design u0026 Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394" video.

  1. Thank you for your comment. It's very interesting from a biological standpoint. I understand this "driving force towards unity" as one of the aspects of the divine/ transcendend / out-wordly / spiritual (God) who is love, beauty & life. Who sustains in life, creates. Biological processes could be one of the manifestations of this driving force. But there is something disturbingly destructive in nature (including in humans), which leads to brokenness & death. Force of evil, entropy, disfiguring beauty, creating division, selhishness, breaking perfection & beauty, destroying love in mockery, abuse & sadism. Two contrasting processes, we are subjected to as a part of nature. Recently, I think a lot about a transcendence in a broad sense, not only connecting with something beyond the reality we are living in. Also, a process of emotional growth, meaning transcending one's conditions, whatever they might be. We are destined to transcend. Life is a process leading to biological death. I think transcending from material to spiritual is necessary for escaping entropy of this world, analogically to creating beautiful forms through art, extracting beauty from nature, which is ever present in it, despite destruction & decay. I think that the theory of evolution is not the good enough approximation of nature. We should strive for unity because every ecosystem is an interconnected, complex symbiosis, rather than broken communities, and atomization of people. This brings many people to loneliness that is hard to bear because apart from the separation between people, we are conditioned to be separated from the divine/ God's love & order because there is supposedly no God, no higher order. This causes great emptiness and despair, separation, and alienation in man. Thanks again for your comment! I appreciate it.
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  2. ​ @DhruveDahiya l feel for you.
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