Physics and chemistry are based on laws.  There are no mistakes in physics. Biology, in contrast, is full of errors. 

"The answers to these questions have profound implications for how we think about life. If things go wrong only when physics becomes biology, biology might truly be irreducible to physics and chemistry, despite centuries of reductionism saying otherwise."

Physics and chemistry are based on laws.  There are no mistakes in physics. Biology, in contrast, is full of errors. 

"The answers to these questions have profound implications for how we think about life. If things go wrong only when physics becomes biology, biology might truly be irreducible to physics and chemistry, despite centuries of reductionism saying otherwise." 

https://aeon.co/essays/a-new-theory-suggests-mistakes-are-an-essential-part-of-being-alive

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What exactly are calling "biology" here? To me, it's always been the autonomic processes happening inside a living organism (and nothing more). Defined this way, I've always viewed biology as more or less reducible to chemistry.

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Asked cuz i tried to quick scan a bit to see if it's worth reading since it's long.. saw it included animals perceiving something about the environment incorrectly and making decisions based on it within the "biology" category

That's broader than biology to me and with that definition, yes, I could see how it's not directly reducible to chemistry :)

Humans make a lot of rules in biology

The one that always got me is species differentiation (and ofc naming and grouping for larger species before DNA sequencing)

I’ve been out of microbiology for a while but back in the day it was a fuzzy call for bacteria between 95-98% shared DNA