We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology | Aeon Essays
basic ingredients for systems that could devise and improvise solutions to living that are emergent, versatile, adaptive, and robust. The new picture dispels the long-standing idea that living systems must be regarded as machines.
Philip Ball • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
A Revolution in Biology
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These hypotheses suggest that deep principles govern the emergence of problem-solving matter, principles that push our understanding of modern physics and chemistry towards their limits. They mark a radical departure from life as we once knew it.