Organisms or Machines?
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 09:32
in Biology & Nature
Dr. Dan Nicholson is first a scientist, a molecular biologist. However, unlike most researchers in the constantly changing and expanding field of biology, Dan questions the very directions fields like synthetic biology are taking us. With his PhD in Philosophy, Dan's research now is centered around understanding how machine models can explain biology. I had a Q&A with Dan on his publications on the machine conception of organisms to gain some interesting insights on the direction of biological research today:
