You have put your finger on perhaps the central observation embedded in this piece - that the built landscape is complicated, while the living world is complex. Laptops can be repaired ("requires deliberate intention"); they cannot heal themselves ("can renew naturally"). This is true of individual organisms just as it is of the biosphere, of course.

This distinction between complex and complicated seems largely to be lost on humanity at present, and my sense is that the way we have increasingly surrounded ourselves with all things anthropogenic is a major contributing factor. The abstract Pythagorean geometry of the built environment is also compicated, just as the fractal geometry of the natural world is complex. It's as if we have made a hall of mirrors for ourselves by blocking out the complexity of life itself in favor of structures of our own making, which we regard as inanimate, and extrapolate from that that the world is the same.

I keep seeing humans seeking simple solutions to complex problems, instead of learning to participate in a complex, living world. It seems to me our prospects of surviving increase to the extent we invest in the latter approach.

Thank you for your ever insightful and thought provoking comments!