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COMMON VIEW. “Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner argued that Turing machines have much in common with cells and living organisms; that cells and living organisms are, in fact, the best examples of Turing's and von Neumann's machines.” http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3512409/ View in LinkedIn

PRESS RESET. “Life's code script does not code itself. The machine metaphor for living organisms is outdated.” https://lnkd.in/dp43QEu View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on the idea of organisms as machines, a common idea. Günther Witzany is a well published independent author, and brings a fresh perspective on biology. The common language in biology today tends to be mechanistic, with cells as wired machines, replete with engineer-able parts that can be switched on an off. But slowly, we are realizing this is a false analogy. View in LinkedIn

COMMUNICATION. “Organisms can even generate de novo sequences to adapt appropriately. A machine can only simulate biocommunication, but it cannot communicate in such non-formalizable terms.” http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3512409/ View in LinkedIn

INTERACTIVE. “First, context-dependent epigenetic markers control the activity of genes. These markers are not inscribed in the genome but are the result of internal processes, environmental factors and developmental history.” http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3512409/ View in LinkedIn

IN SITU. “Natural language and communication are context dependent. This means that the same syntactic structure of content-loaded signs can transport different and even contradictory meanings for the language-using receiver, dependent on the context in which the language sequence is used.” http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3512409/ View in LinkedIn