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Re:Can a biologist fix a radio?–Or, what I learned while stu... by fastaguy88 on Monday October 14, 2024 @10:39PM (#41844407)
I am a bit more comfortable saying "Biological systems also have 'solutions' that emerged through evolution." That is certainly true. But unlike designers, evolution is perfectly happy to re-invent the wheel (even if it is a less functional wheel). So different, evolutionarily independent, processes may provide the same solution, and of course solutions are constantly re-used to provide slightly different solutions. So I'm not sure that "complexity" is the hardest problem, though it certainly doesn't make things easy. The diversity of solutions for the same problem makes generalization/abstraction even more difficult.

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