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Scientific iconoclasm and active imagination: synthetic cells as techno-scientific mandalas

Metaphors allow us to come to terms with abstract and complex information, by comparing it to something which is structured, familiar and concrete. Although modern science is “iconoclastic”, as Gaston Bachelard phrases it (i.e. bent on replacing living entities by symbolic data: e.g. biochemical and...

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Autor principal: Zwart, Hub
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5950845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29761363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40504-018-0075-0