Thursday, October 8, 2015

Engineering principles are everywhere!

One of the observations that scientists have made about biology is that is it rife with engineering principles.  But of course we should expect such a thing.  Any man-made structure that we build would surely fail unless it is in accord with good engineering principles.  Why should anything less be expected of living systems?

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  1. This appears to be correct. In fact the biological system uses very advanced techniques for regulation that we exclude from software development like self modifying code (TE's updating DNA coding) because for us it can cause errors and defy verification/validation.

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