We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology | Aeon Essays
How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays
Benjamin Santos Gentaaeon.co
These hypotheses suggest that deep principles govern the emergence of problem-solving matter, principles that push our understanding of modern physics and chemistry towards their limits. They mark a radical departure from life as we once knew it.
David C Krakauer • Life Is Starting to Look a Lot Less Like an Outcome of Chemistry and Physics, and More Like a Computational Process
we now have growing reasons to suspect that agency is a genuine natural phenomenon. Biology could stop being so coy about it if only we had a proper theory of how it arises. Unfortunately, no such thing currently exists, but there’s increasing optimism that a theory of agency can be found – and, moreover, that it’s not necessarily unique to living ... See more