Difference between LALIAFLIA and Bionics, Biomimicry ect.

A psychology friend of our family ones said to me that there are two ways to learn something new.
One is by recognizing an information or experience, and two is by being disturbed by a new information or experience, which forces us to adapt to the new circumstances. That's why I am not surprised that many people who have no clue about the depth of LALIAFLIA trying to find parallels to other concepts.

An innovator friend of mine met someone from the innovation company "Festo" and said to me: "Esayas, I know this company which is exactly doing what you are doing." Sure "Festo" is imitating and abstracting behaviors from living things and applying it into technological solutions, but still that doesn't mean they are doing LALIAFLIA.

LALIAFLIA has elements of Bionics and Biomimicry, but as a whole it is much larger and comprehensive than both fields as it considers the layers of inspiration, all life on earth, all inventions that are based on inspiration taken from living things and all innovations that will be possible in the future by applying this method.

The reason for that is the enormously flexible applicability of the term INSPIRATION and ABSTRACTION. By having inventions based on inspirations and abstractions from living things an entire new world of life inspired design is possible.

Another important strength of LALIAFLIA is the possibility to design immaterial concepts and models based on living things. The famous Boston Consulting Group Matrix is a very simple example for a LIA, which represents an inspiration and less an imitation of life. The Matrix is an abstraction of a product life cycle that originated from an inspiration taken from any living thing. The metaphors taken by BCG can be re-imagined as baby, youth, adult and grandfather. In principle the matrix expresses that all products and businesses are like a living thing.

To say that LIA's are imitation of Living Artefacts is not correct. Even Biomimicries advocate Janine Benyus emphasis more the inspiration process and not the imitation process. The Beijing National Olympic Stadium (Bird's Nest) is not made to inhabit huge birds so they can incubate eggs, right...?

"The whole is larger than the sum of it's parts".

For LALIAFLIA it means: IT IS THE WHOLE!

For the other concepts, models and methods like: DNA, GINA, Zoomorphic, Bionics, Biomimicry, Robotics, AI ect.: THESE ARE THE PARTS.

Bionics and Biomimicry are like the other models and concepts part of the larger family LALIAFLIA.