Yes, indeed. No wonder some biologists fear asking computer scientists for assistance, it would violate their dogma of purposelessness, (Since no software can come to be without purpose, be it coded in binary or in DNA.)
Your quote is very much like a line by Whitehead often cited by Father Jaki:
Those who devote their lives to the purpose of proving that there is no purpose, constitute an interesting subject for study.
[A. N. Whitehead, The Function of Reason (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1929), p. 12.]
Yes, indeed. No wonder some biologists fear asking computer scientists for assistance, it would violate their dogma of purposelessness, (Since no software can come to be without purpose, be it coded in binary or in DNA.)
ReplyDeleteYour quote is very much like a line by Whitehead often cited by Father Jaki:
Those who devote their lives to the purpose of proving that there is no purpose, constitute an interesting subject for study.
[A. N. Whitehead, The Function of Reason (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1929), p. 12.]
See here http://theduhemsociety.blogspot.com/2009/05/so-what-is-our-purpose.html fo rmore.