Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are)

Our formal models of life, computers and materials fail to tell the entire story of their capabilities and limitations.

Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are) Our formal models of life, computers and materials fail to tell the entire story of their capabilities and limitations. Sybil Montet for Noema Magazine Credits Michael Levin is a distinguished professor and the Vannevar Bush chair in the biology department at Tufts University, as well as the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and associate faculty at the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard University. “There is nothing natural about classes, families and orders, the so-called systems are artificial con

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