Engineering and Biology: Counsel for a Continued Relationship.
Engineering and Biology: Counsel for a Continued Relationship.
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10.1007/s13752-014-0198-3
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发表时间：
2015-03
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通讯作者：
Wagner, Andreas
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作者：
Calcott, Brett;Levy, Arnon;Siegal, Mark L.;Soyer, Orkun S.;Wagner, Andreas
生物学家经常从工程学中汲取概念和术语。进化系统生物学及其电路、开关和信号处理也不例外。与生物学和工程学之间频繁的联系相平行的是，对这种交叉施肥的批评正在进行，使用的论点是，工程学中过于简单化的隐喻可能会误导我们，因为工程学与生物学有根本的不同。在这篇文章中，我们澄清和重新配置生物学和工程学之间的联系，以更有利的方式呈现它。我们这样做，首先，认为批评者的操作与工程实际上是如何工作的，以及什么依赖于工程的想法需要一个狭隘的和不正确的概念。其次，我们诊断和扩散一个重要的关注来源呼吁工程，即它们本质上是有问题的隐喻。我们认为，工程学和生物学之间有足够的肥沃土壤，可以继续保持健康的关系。
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.
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