Yes. As theorized by Dawkins, Dennett—and thought through a little by me in The Ecological Thought—it appears that the search for genes “for” specific disorders is a wild goose chase.
DNA code is not like a codex. It's like a recipe, an algorithm. As you know, you can produce very different results with the same recipe.
“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
Sunday, June 13, 2010
There's No Gene “For” That
ecology, philosophy, culture, science
algorithms,
Daniel Dennett,
Dawkins,
DNA,
The Ecological Thought
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment