Boundary Pushing

Though we have removed ourselves from nature in many senses, I think it is important to recognize that we are within its confines and that it allows us and we need it  to improve ourselves. Everything that we construct is natural in that we made it, and in that it was made from things that are natural. If something is made entirely of granite, then the structure itself is also granite. There are many ways that we can see that most of us are, in fact, not much better than nature. Most of us would not survive very well in the Amazon, for example. There are many threats there that we no longer have to, therefore, in general, no longer can deal with. Most of us have lost the knowledge of how to survive on our own because we are so dependent on our grocery stores for food, and dependent on our houses, built by others, for protection from animals.

To make a note here, I do think that eventually, while still working within nature, as we have no choice but to do so, we will be able to be much more free. I think that we will be able to better manipulate nature in time. As our technology increases, we are better equipped to manipulate nature allowing us to do more things. At one point, we could not travel faster than we can run, currently, however, we have created jets which can break the speed of sound - I think the fastest thing we've created is a space craft (NASA's New Horizons Craft) that travelled at 36,360mph. Eventually, I imagine, we'll be able to travel near the tachyons (slowest as the speed of light), or possibly even faster than that, which would still be in the confines of nature.