ライブラリ登録: Guest
Critical Reviews™ in Biomedical Engineering

年間 6 号発行

ISSN 印刷: 0278-940X

ISSN オンライン: 1943-619X

SJR: 0.262 SNIP: 0.372 CiteScore™:: 2.2 H-Index: 56

Indexed in

What Is Life, and What Is a Machine? The Ontology of Bioengineering

巻 28, 発行 3&4, 2000, pp. 545-550
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v28.i34.340
Get accessGet access

要約

In his Keynote address to the First Conference at Clemson University on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, George Bugliarello suggested that a most important ethical issue for bioengineering "is the positioning of the bio-machine interface." "Where," he asked, "should the biological organism end and the machine begin?" Central to this question of the limits of life and engineering is the more fundamental question of how life differs and how it is similar to a machine. This paper argues that until very recently, science, by its very nature, has treated life as if it were a machine, or has treated the parts of living systems as if they were machines. The distinctive feature of a machine is that its behavior is linear and hence predictable. On the other hand, living organisms may not be linear, but rather nonlinear systems. Thus, the interface between organism and machine may be conceived as the interface between nonlinear and linear systems.

によって引用された
  1. Vallero Daniel A., Epilogue, in Biomedical Ethics for Engineers, 2007. Crossref

  2. Santos Fernando Pasquini, Mechanization and the Irreducibility of the Biotic Aspect: A Dooyeweerdian View of Bioengineering, Philosophia Reformata, 86, 2, 2021. Crossref

Begell Digital Portal Begellデジタルライブラリー 電子書籍 ジャーナル 参考文献と会報 リサーチ集 価格及び購読のポリシー Begell House 連絡先 Language English 中文 Русский Português German French Spain