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by a_bonobo
778 days ago
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Classic essay in this vein: >Can a biologist fix a radio? — Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/pdf/S1535-6108(02)00133-2.p... >However, if the radio has tunable components, such as those
found in my old radio (indicated by yellow arrows in Figure 2,
inset) and in all live cells and organisms, the outcome will not be
so promising. Indeed, the radio may not work because several
components are not tuned properly, which is not reflected in their
appearance or their connections. What is the probability that this
radio will be fixed by our biologists? I might be overly pessimistic,
but a textbook example of the monkey that can, in principle, type
a Burns poem comes to mind. In other words, the radio will not
play music unless that lucky chance meets a prepared mind. |
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