What can currently be said about the impact of probiotic bacteria on the microbial balance at the moment? “They go in at one end of the digestive tract and come out the other, and hopefully something good happens along the way” is probably not too harsh a statement.
— Gerald Tannock , Probiotics: A Critical Review

Archive for September, 2007

Remarks on Chu-Ho Fall 2007

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Dominique Chu and Wen Kin Ho iterate their previous exercises in misunderstanding and misconstruing of Rosen’s work with their latest paper, “Computational Realizations of Living Systems“, in the Fall 2007 issue of the MIT journal Artificial Life [1]. The abstract:

Robert Rosen’s central theorem states that organisms are fundamentally different from machines, mainly because they are ‘‘closed with respect to efficient causation.” The proof […]

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