BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes
Brain Inspired
The Machine Concept of the Organism
The machine conception of the organism or MCO as you abbreviate it, which you've written a lot about. The most approximate cause is this argument that Schrödinger puts forward about determinacy. Descartes in the 17th century and scholastic authors thinking about this as well. Machine metaphors come up in different contexts and evolution development. So there I think is where the, the machine medical breaks down. It's just inadequate.
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