Daniel J Nicholson
djnicholson.bsky.social
Integrating the History, Philosophy, & Theory of Biology
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I'm so tired of forming opinions relative to AI, but: this bit from the conclusion of this new paper from @djnicholson.bsky.social on Weiss' conception of systems in biology really made me rethink the role of theory link.springer.com/article/10.1... Formalisms crapped out by LLMs are useless alone
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It is good to see something like that emphasised in the paper: "A developmental system possesses a certain ‘genetic endowment’ which provides ‘boundary conditions’ that shape its developmental trajectory, allowing sufficient latitude for non-genetic factors to jointly co-constitute the process"
Show PostYou can't dissociate length and width in their contributions to the area of a rectangle - that doesn't make sense. But it DOES make sense to ask *across a population of rectangles* how much variation in width or in length contributes to variance in area
Show PostI really enjoyed this paper by @djnicholson.bsky.social on Paul Weiss's long-neglected contributions to Systems Thinking in biology.
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