Sujet : The Sciences of the Artificial applied to Biology De : joegwinn (at) *nospam* comcast.net (Joe Gwinn) Groupes :sci.electronics.design Date : 10. Jul 2025, 00:38:41 Autres entêtes Message-ID :<7out6k96b8cgjr3t5bdnr8g432shen7vqe@4ax.com> User-Agent : ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
I forgot to mention that he Sciences of the Artificial digs deep into why living things (even microscopic ones) have distinct organs and often components within such organs, versus the organism being a mass of tissue that somehow does everything. The driver is efficiency and simplicity.
This assumes that life has already emerged in some unspecified way, and goes from there. This is a different approach than Dawkin's Blind-Watchmaker arguments.
Joe
Ref: "Simon_Herbert_A_The_Sciences_of_the_Artificial_3rd_ed" - The Architecture of Complexity. New copies are available from MIT Press.