AI Medical Compendium Journal:
History and philosophy of the life sciences

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On the relationship between scientific theory and ontology in everything flows.

History and philosophy of the life sciences
In their anthology Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré argue that modern theories of biology imply that the fundamental structure of reality is processual at its core. In the present work, ...

Ontologically simple theories do not indicate the true nature of complex biological systems: three test cases.

History and philosophy of the life sciences
A longstanding philosophical premise perceives simplicity as a desirable attribute of scientific theories. One of several raised justifications for this notion is that simple theories are more likely to indicate the true makeup of natural systems. Qu...

Robot life: simulation and participation in the study of evolution and social behavior.

History and philosophy of the life sciences
This paper explores the case of using robots to simulate evolution, in particular the case of Hamilton's Law. The uses of robots raises several questions that this paper seeks to address. The first concerns the role of the robots in biological resear...