a paper in Nature by Nobel Laureate Paul Nurse. Entitled "Life, Logic and Information" it is yet another claim that information technology is the best way to conceptualise biology, in particular biological systems.
There has always been a tendency for scientists and philosophers to appeal to the latest and best technology to explain living things.
the sort of reductionism I would promote is that which includes the systemic relations between parts
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