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It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life (www.nature.com)

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Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999

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[–] Meowoem 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still feel like he's nitpicking tbh, wiring diagrams can have devices with variable or probabilistic states and though the maths is very complex it's theoretically possible to similate and map.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This maybe true, but these states aren't being represented in the biological diagrams.