Alphan VARDARLI

 

 IODS — Intra-Organismal Data Symbiosis Biology's most productive metaphor is also its most misleading. We call genes "master regulators," frame CRISPR as "editing the code of life," and treat the gap between genotype and phenotype as a sampling problem. The metaphor of DNA-as-blueprint has driven enormous scientific progress — but the inference from experimental convenience to ontological primacy is an error, and one with real consequences for how we design research, interpret data, and allocate funding. Intra-Organismal Data Symbiosis (IODS) is a new theoretical framework that takes a different position. Developed across two companion papers, IODS proposes that living organisms are organised through the structured interdependence of multiple data modalities — DNA, the epigenome, proteome, metabolome, microbiome, and behaviour — none of which occupies a permanent causal summit. This is not the naïve claim that "everything matters equally." That would ...

 

And in the end there was plastic...,   submitted to Poetry Expo 26, has been selected and will be showcased on 7 February. #poetryexpo #poetryexpo2026 #versopolis