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464 pages, Paperback
First published February 26, 2013
Among scientific articles there are to be found not a few wherein the logic and mathematics are faultless but which are for all that worthless, because the assumptions and hypotheses upon which the faultless logic and mathematics rest do not correspond to actuality. (quoted on p. 100 of the text)
The loss of the gene at the head of a chain of causal mechanisms explaining the organism represents more than the loss of the master link in the chain. It exemplifies the failure of every link considered as machinelike. The seeming chaos of causal arrows now being documented under the heading of "gene regulation" repeats itself in every aspect of the cell.
We can observe the patterns by tracing the physical interactions, but those patterns can never be arrived at merely by working out the implications of the physical laws and substances.