for - definition - physiocrats - Steve Keen - economy - history - economic flow as biomimicry of body's circulation system

definition - physiocrat - During the 18th and 19th century, a group of mostly French "economists" led by Francois Quesnay, physician to the King of France at the time, performed some of the first autopsies of the time. - Autopsies were banned for the longest time for religious reasons - When Quesnay performed autopsies, he discovered networks of tubes in the circulation system and this led him to surmise a network of circulation in another field, economics - Quesnay advised the king, hence the name physiocrat - So modern economics has its roots in biology - it was a case of biomimicry!

for - biomimicry - shock absorber - woodpecker

for - trees are stronger than steel

biomimicry - trees - (see below)

• strong tubular cells in
  • the trunk and
  • branches
• grow and knit themselves into concentric tubular layers one on top of the next, every season.
• That is why you can count the rings on a tree to determine its age.
• This concentric, circular structure is the reason, that for its weight,
  • wood is still the strongest building material on the planet.

• for: energy - biomimicry

!- Futures Thinking : Maslow's Hierarchy framing for Food - fully or partially organic - can have industrial automation, but at local scale - biomimicry to work with nature instead of against it

!- relationship : internet to biology - internet was designed to biomimic biological systems for redundancy, resiliency, decentralized