<< For too long, scientists have been content in espousing the lazy metaphor of living systems operating simply like machines, (..) Yet, it’s important to be open about the complexity of biology — including what we don’t know — because public understanding affects policy, health care and trust in science. “So long as we insist that cells are computers and genes are their code,” writes Ball, life might as well be “sprinkled with invisible magic”. But, reality “is far more interesting and wonderful”, as he explains in this must-read user’s guide for biologists and non-biologists alike. >>️
Denis Noble. It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life. Nature. 626, 254-255 (2024). Feb 5, 2024.
Philip Ball. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Pan Macmillan (2024).
Also: disorder, disorder & fluctuation, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html
Keywords: life, disorder, fluctuations
FonT: this point of view, published in the 70s-80s, would have made a damned impression.
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