> You can ask the same question for all the other functions that plants perform. most of these functions we might not even know of and only realize once it's missed.
> in short, it's not economical for us to do. it might not even be possible for us to do fully given all that complexity that millions of years in evolution captures.
Yes. Human engineering tends to struggle (and eventually fail) against entropy, degradation, and change in order to accomplish one or a very few things. The systems we call life, on the other hand, often play many roles related to the perpetuation of themselves and others, and have (in a collective sense) successfully persisted in the face of highly variable conditions for millions of years.
> in short, it's not economical for us to do. it might not even be possible for us to do fully given all that complexity that millions of years in evolution captures.
Yes. Human engineering tends to struggle (and eventually fail) against entropy, degradation, and change in order to accomplish one or a very few things. The systems we call life, on the other hand, often play many roles related to the perpetuation of themselves and others, and have (in a collective sense) successfully persisted in the face of highly variable conditions for millions of years.