Ideas By Maria Balaska January 25, 2025 6:00 AM EST Maria Balaska is a London-based philosopher and psychologist. Her research project on fake nature is funded by the Kone Foundation . Her latest book is Anxiety and Wonder: on Being Human . W hen the German philosopher Immanuel Kant puzzled over why nature looks beautiful to us, he considered the case of replicas. Imagine, Kant wrote in the late 1700s, a jovial innkeeper who, for lack of a nightingale to enchant his guests, plays a trick on