On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:55:38PM -0600, Marcos wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Cancer is a genetic disease. > > However, to say that "cancer is a genetic disease" is again to imply > that the body a machine. While the body, without question, has > machine-like components, it far from the same as saying it should be > treated mechanically. To try to solve such problems with such *crude* > mechanisms as radiation and extreme chemicals are bound to make worse > problems occur down the line.
That's not an objection to saying the body is a machine, or shouldn't be treated mechanically. The latter treatments are the equivalent of fixing a wristwatch with a 10 lb sledgehammer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
