Organisms are not machines (Ep 82)
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The Machine View Is a Good Way to Think About Things
Rischine: It makes sense ontologically to talk about the world in this dynamic sense, but that doesn't mean it can be help to think about biological systems and biological phenomena ind a more substantibl thing like way. But ultimately, we want to have a theory of the organism of life, also of geanes,. then perhaps we we should explain how something can be useful and yet not be right. The same thing applies to ideas such as ta self.
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