Living Machines: Metaphors We Live By.
Within biology and in society, living creatures have long been described using metaphors of machinery and computation: 'bioengineering', 'genes as code' or 'biological chassis'. This paper builds on Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) argument that such language mechanisms shape how we understand the world....
| Publicado en: | NanoEthics Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 57 - 71 |
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