And so we need to do better at copying their natural environment to get them to thrive.

My own seal.

Now, the other thing that fashion designers have done to survive in this culture of copying is they've learned how to copy themselves.

Nature has been called the greatest architect of forms.

Sometimes this Chinese national Internet policy is very simple

My own seal.

So, how do you do imitation? Why is imitation important?

the freedom for underwater flight.

It also recognizes where you're looking, your head orientation.

Stick with the definition.

Instead of jamming the GPS signals, you fake them.

This stuff could be a knockoff or left over from an older cook.

In ecosystems, the waste from one organism becomes the nutrient for something else in that system.

This is a very different demographic.

This terrified people.

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It's the combination of strength, extensibility and toughness that makes spider silk so special, and that has attracted the attention of biomimeticists, so people that turn to nature to try to find new solutions.

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So jane was right. We have a copycat.

Most of us have no problem with copying... as long as we're the ones doing it.

Would he have had more possibilities in his life?

In reality, anybody who has ever created anything knows that any innovation starts with and consists largely of a lot of imitation.

I knew there was more open water. And I had a secret weapon up my sleeve.

They're two sides of the same coin, just like innovation and imitation,

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And then there was a light.

Using fruit and vegetable staining, create organic patterning.

And then, there was a light.

I would like every concern of the kingdom to fall under the king

And here is the long probosced fly that has not gotten any nectar from the mimic, because the mimic doesn't give it any nectar.

Every child needs someone to look up to and copy.

They seem to lack the ability to learn from others by copying or imitating or simply watching.

In 1951, Escher made this drawing. He thought he created an animal fantasy.

OMGGGGG FlNALLY... so much more to come, virtual reality, neural manipulation, visual dream emulation... neural coding, 'writing and re writing of memories', mental illnesses. So the first thing that you'll notice is that people have really strong opinions about this kind of work.

So, a solution to the problem, then, would be to build a device that could mimic the actions of that front end circuitry and send signals to the retina's output cells, and they can go back to doing their normal job of sending signals to the brain.

The natural and the supernatural.

This is crazy.

It's not slavishly mimicking although Al is trying to get the hairdo going it's not a slavish mimicry it's taking the design principles, the genius of the natural world, and learning something from it.

Now how are we going to do that?

He wanted a name for the new replicator.

Remember that, that's the core definition that which is imitated.

And nobody celebrates imitation the way Dirty Jobs guys know it has to be done.

So, some people will say, Oh, my God, are we playing God?

It's been widely heralded.

We copy this in the lab by outfitting cell culture systems with electrodes.