Take this for example. Mechanical gears in insects. Not only was it there all along, we had to become technologically advanced enough to be able to see it. It's great to see also how multi-generational and cross disciplinary the project became too.





So even what we think is an opposite but heavily unbalanced set of dualities with technology on one side and the natural world on the other is at the end of the day all about perspective. Tools are everywhere. So much so that we ignore them and think only of physical man made objects. I believe that language is a tool but this until recently was disputed by most linguists not because the evidence was not there but because they had become fixated on something else. My Mrs after her stroke used to have to have her plate turned around, or else she would only eat one half. Neurologists and physios used to think that this was because left lobe damage meant that she could not see anything on her right. This was commonly believed until recently of most people with aquired brain injuries. The reality though is not that she could not see the left hand side of the plate but that she had become fixated on the right. Thanks to the brains remarkable plasticity she no longer has this problem and it has adapted, but it is a useful illustration. We all become fixated on ideas and models, and so new, or more accurately, newly discovered ideas, take a long time to adapt to.

Anti-Matter is such an idea.

There are cults who predicted the world would end on a certain date. Psychologists and anthropologists had the idea of studying them before this end date. What they found was even though the world did not end on that date they did not give up believing in the cult. In fact it strengthened their belief because they thought their faith had prevented the aliens/God/Devil, whatever, ending the world

Anything but change. As though fear can stop it.

We are all changing.

Always.