Scientific iconoclasm and active imagination: synthetic cells as techno-scientific mandalas
Abstract 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. bioche...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Life Sciences, Society and Policy |
| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40504-018-0075-0 |