tags: biology

All living organisms are dependent on steady states:

2000

July

2000 Jul 23

See, males are not strictly required for the propagation of life. Human life, perhaps, but in time, the human male may… become anachronistic.

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2007

December

2007 Dec 9

central dogma

Of course, I suppose I really should’ve searched Google before trying to coin a phrase. Other people have already used the analogy of the mechanisms of life to the mechanisms of computer programming and information technology.

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This elliptical rant about a failed taxonomy for computer users gets me thinking. We (as in, those of us who have been exposed to Western metaphysics) have noted the failure of taxonomic structures for a long time now. While it is sometimes useful to see things in terms of hierarchical relationships, this is likely a relic of our primate ancestry, and it is clearly a kludgy shortcut in terms of understanding the universe.

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