How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Mais aussi puissants soient-ils, nos « ordinateurs ne nous permettront jamais de maîtriser les processus qui sous-tendent la santé des organismes, des écosystèmes, des organisations et des communautés », écrit Brian Goodwin, mathématicien et biologiste canadien. « Ils sont régis par des principes subtils dans lesquels la causalité n’est pas linéair
... See morePablo Servigne • Une autre fin du monde est possible (Anthropocène) (French Edition)
living thing must capture enough energy and materials, and fend off its own destruction long enough to construct a good enough replica of itself. The reverse-engineering perspective is ubiquitous in biology and is obligatory in investigations of the origin of life.
Daniel C Dennett • From Bacteria to Bach and Back
The citizens of contemporary society are clearly divided by a great cleavage which announces itself everywhere, and has gotten to the stage where State Premiers are placing broad bans on the ‘unvaxxed’, bayed on by most Australians. How are we to reconcile contradicting views when we find convincing experts on each side of any argument? We need onl
... See morethe interaction between an autopoietic unit and a given molecule X is not primarily dictated by the properties of the molecule X, but by the way in which this molecule is “seen” by the living organism.