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V. Bühlmann, G. Longo:
"Introduction, Conference Lecture: A Mathematical Critique On Computational Thinking In The Sciences Of Nature";
Talk: SOPHISTICATION: Rhetorical, Geometrical And Computational »Articulation«. Conference, TU Wien; 2017-12-07 - 2017-12-09.

The singularity of human life (its "dignity") is the result of biological evolution and of human history. By active gestures and language, we produce sense within the human communicating community; we delimit and qualify phenomena, we co-construct objects of knowledge and objectivity. Today´s use of discrete state (digital) machines both as mathematical models and as a paradigm in science and humanities sets peculiar biases to knowledge construction. Their networks for elaborating information provide fantastic tools for human activities, but also
an image of the world. The confusion between "elaboration of information" and "production
of sense" is a ecting our humanity and ways of knowing. The strong dualism of computing devices (software vs. hardware) blurs the radical materiality and the physical singularity of life. The related distortion of knowledge is also grounded on the abuse of pre-scientific or common- sense notions from information and programming theories in biology, with some dramatic consequences also for our health, in particular in cancer analysis and prevention.

References:
F. Bailly, G. Longo, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. The Physical Singularity of Life, Imperial College Press, London, 2011.(Introduction: http:// .di.ens.fr/users/longo/files/ BaLoSingBook/english-introduction.pdf)
G. Longo. The Biological Consequences of the Computational World: Mathematical Reflections on Cancer Biology. In Print See http:// .di.ens.fr/users/longo/download.html for this and more.

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_267587.pdf