Nature Patterns

Nature

patterns

Collaborative

Nature provides mutual benefits. The benefits may be simple byproducts of specific behaviors

• Synergy
• Who is doing the same
• Who can we team up

Responsive

• Self-correcting
• System Based

Chances of survival increase when individuals are good at recognizing local conditions and opportunities and locating and managing available resources.

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Redundant

• Functional complementary
• Others can step in to perform the same function

Redundancy” means that there’s more than one representative system, organism, or species that provides each function, and that there’s overlap so the loss of or decline in one representative doesn’t destroy the whole system.

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Decentralized

Key functions are spread out across the system to prevent failure from a single disruption.

• Can the parts work indivdually?

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Uses Local Resources

Nature builds using local; abundant resources, incorporating rare resources only sparingly.

• Functional complementary
• Others can step in to perform the same function

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Recycles all materials

While we talk about “recycling,” “upcycling” is a more accurate description of what happens in nature.

• Optimize over maximize
• Reduces all excess

Feedback Loop

• What is the feedback loop?
• How does it work?
• What processes does it check?
• Who monitors the feedback loop?

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