Is nature creative? The notion sounds at first like a sop to sentimentalists, an anthropomorphism one step away from pantheism. The beauty of nature is a perilously seductive concept. Biologist Karl von Frisch had it more or less right when, confronted with the variety of delicately patterned radiolarians and diatoms, he was determined not to get misty-eyed: "I do not want to wax philosophical about so much 'useless' beauty scattered over the oceans," he said. "Nature is prodigal." But on closer inspection, the idea of natural creativity has a lot going for it. Like creative people, nature produces things that appear neither inevitable nor obvious, and solves problems with innovative solutions.
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机译：大自然有创造力吗？这个概念起初听起来像是对情感主义者的浸礼，是一种拟人论，距离泛神论只有一步之遥。大自然的美是一个危险的诱人概念。当生物学家卡尔·冯·弗里施（Karl von Frisch）面对各种各样精美的放射线虫和硅藻时，他下定决心不要变得mist目结舌：“我不想对散布在如此多的“无用”之美上的哲学打蜡海洋，”他说。 “自然是浪子。”但是仔细观察，自然创造力的想法大有可为。就像有创造力的人一样，自然产生的东西看起来既不可避免又不明显，并通过创新的解决方案解决了问题。
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