Tag: Tufts University
Peter Corning and the Taint of Vitalism
As the insightful work of Corning and others has shown, the vitalist/mechanist debate in biology is nowhere near over. If anything, it’s just getting started.
Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life
Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life.
Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense
“Various scientists have sought to define the ‘physical limits to computation,’ and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that.”
Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy
I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications.
Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology
A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA.