糖心TV Complexity Science Events
Complexity Centre and MathSys CDT events carry priority over room D1.07.
To book D1.07 please email Sheetal dot Sharma at warwick dot ac dot uk
Please note that your event booking is for D1.07 only. The adjacent common room is a private area for the MathSys Centre that cannot used as part of your booking.
Complexity Forum
Location: B3.02 Maths
'We take in fuel, burn it with oxygen, do work (some of us...), and radiate heat.聽 I will argue that the resemblance聽to a heat engine is at best unhelpful, at worst grossly misleading, reinforcing a belief in physics as The Fundamental Science.聽 Such "thin-causality"聽explanations are preferred for nursery stories, for聽Lies-to-Children, even for undergraduate exam questions and answers.聽聽 But "thick-causality" thinking, including historical and contingent elements and recognition of complexity, is mandatory for better understanding of biological processes; this is especially so for reproduction and development.'