Tag: molecular biology
Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?
At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind.
Introducing the Unknome, Biology’s Black Box
Biology is becoming overwhelmed by new vistas of dynamic complexity. Attempts to get a handle on this complexity has ushered in the era of Omics.
Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?
Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.”
Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course
How strong is the evidence for Darwinian evolution? What are the limits of the Darwinian mechanism?
Iterations of Immortality
The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world.