Scientific iconoclasm and active imagination: synthetic cells as techno-scientific mandalas
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DOI: 10.1186/s40504-018-0075-0
Abstract: Metaphors allow us to come to terms with abstract and complex information, by comparing it to something which is structured, familiar and concrete. Although modern science is “iconoclastic”, as Gaston Bachelard phrases it (i.e. bent… read more here.
Keywords: cell; scientific iconoclasm; synthetic cell; active imagination ... See more keywords