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The production of biotechnological memory and its cultural consequences

Biologic memory has traditionally been conceived as a sacred writing, whose syntax would be forever barred to the human being he himself a product of Divine Word. Given the recent advances in molecular biology, however, such syntax and writing have been unveiled and appropriated by tecnoscience. This paper investigates the relationship between the digitalization of life and the mathematical logics that determines the inner dynamics of this kind of scripture. Aiming at establishing the fundamental relationship between mathematics and modern science, particularly as it emerges in cybernetics and molecular biology, the article seeks to identify the impact the archiving and edition of life might have in the Western Culture.

Biotechnology; Cybernetic; Nature; Memory; Life


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