Biophilia: Explained Relationship Between: Nature & Human Natural & Artificial
The Biophilia Hypothesis suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life (Rogers, 2016). In contemporary world, such inclination persist and in one way, perceive as a characteristic nur tured through the course of history; a product of human evolution as an adaptive response to natural forces. Humans are the product of nature itself, but with the discovery of engineering, we construct, alter and even create an ar tificial environment to inhibit it. Referring to the book “Form” by Laszlo Peter Kollar, such ar tificial world exist on a gross degree.(Kollar, 1983) . Expanding on that, the idea was based on the cave parable proposed by Plato in the fifth chapter of Republic. As Kollar uses it to explore the three degree of formal existence - Pure, Subtle and Gross. From the narrative, the ‘gross’ degree of existence refers to the physical man-made objects while the subtle forms refers to the idea derived from the pure degree and in this sense the pure degree refers to God’s* creation which is the nature & every living things. Drawing from that, the book not only established the hierarchy of formal existence but also propose that human creations (ar tificial form) are a product derived from the nature. As nature has always been the major inspiration for human creation. (Kollar, 1983) Relating back to the Biophilia Hypothesis, the book does however provide a broad idea of the impor tance and the inseparable relationship between mankind and nature.
* The Author, Laszlo Peter Kollar is a religious man as in the book Form, the hierarchical argument above was justified through different religious context. In this case however, ‘God’ refers to the Higher Being or The entity that creates this world