- From: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:58:03 +0100
- To: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>
- CC: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, semantic-web@w3.org
Slightly OT, bit I think it has some resonance... John F. Sowa wrote: > Although I agree that the principles of biology are based on > chemistry and the principles of chemistry are based on physics, > I also believe that there are laws at each level that would > be extremely difficult, and probably humanly impossible, to > translate directly to the lowest possible level. In support: I found Prof. Denis Noble's book, The Music of Life, very illuminating on this topic (http://musicoflife.co.uk/). Prof Noble has spent much of his career undertaking very detailed computational modeling of biological systems, especially the heart, which at first appearance may appear to be a very reductionist approach. But his overall approach is almost the reverse, and this is very much one of the messages of this book. #g --
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