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Engineering and Biology: Counsel for a Continued Relationship

机译:工程与生物学:持续关系的法律顾问

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Biologists frequently draw on ideas and terminology from engineering. Evolutionary systems biology—with its circuits, switches, and signal processing—is no exception. In parallel with the frequent links drawn between biology and engineering, there is ongoing criticism against this cross-fertilization, using the argument that over-simplistic metaphors from engineering are likely to mislead us as engineering is fundamentally different from biology. In this article, we clarify and reconfigure the link between biology and engineering, presenting it in a more favorable light. We do so by, first, arguing that critics operate with a narrow and incorrect notion of how engineering actually works, and of what the reliance on ideas from engineering entails. Second, we diagnose and diffuse one significant source of concern about appeals to engineering, namely that they are inherently and problematically metaphorical. We suggest that there is plenty of fertile ground left for a continued, healthy relationship between engineering and biology.
机译:生物学家经常借鉴工程学的思想和术语。进化系统生物学(包括其电路,开关和信号处理)也不例外。与生物学和工程学之间经常联系在一起的同时,对这种交叉受精技术的批评也在不断,使用这样的论点,即工程学与生物学根本不同,工程学的过分简单的隐喻很可能误导我们。在本文中,我们将阐明和重新配置生物学与工程学之间的联系,并以更有利的方式介绍它。首先,我们认为批评家对工程的实际运作方式以及对工程观念的依赖有一个狭窄而错误的观念。其次,我们诊断并分散了对工程吸引力的关注的一个重要根源,即它们具有内在和问题上的隐喻性。我们建议为工程与生物学之间保持持续,健康的关系留有很多沃土。

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