There was quite a lot of writing like this in the aftermath of the initial expansion of chemistry into "bio-chemistry". Various thinkers, biologists, multi-disciplinarians all noting that it was foolhardy to imagine that biochemistry could "explain life".
As TFA notes at its opening, they all sort of went quiet as molecular biology became a real thing, and for a while it did seem to many folks that the systematists and cyberneticists were quite simply wrong.
There was quite a lot of writing like this in the aftermath of the initial expansion of chemistry into "bio-chemistry". Various thinkers, biologists, multi-disciplinarians all noting that it was foolhardy to imagine that biochemistry could "explain life".
As TFA notes at its opening, they all sort of went quiet as molecular biology became a real thing, and for a while it did seem to many folks that the systematists and cyberneticists were quite simply wrong.
And here we are again ...