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The origin of individuals
New Jersey : World Scientific, 2009
xix, 253 pages. : illustrations ; 24 cm
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 571.8
In the 17th century, Descartes put forth the metaphor of the machine to explain the functioning of living beings. In the 18th century, La Mettrie extended the metaphor to man. The clock was then used as the paradigm of the machine. In the 20th century, this metaphor still held but the clock was replaced by a computer. Nowadays, the organism is viewed as a robot obeying signals emanating from a computer program controlled by genetic information
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