I agree completely with all the points made in the article and would double down on the critique of the philosophy of biology as a discipline and science itself

I agree completely with all the points made in the article and would double down on the critique of the philosophy of biology as a discipline and science itself: namely that is has historically evolved as a mere system of typologies and that this is so settled in and so sacrosanct that biology is such a superstition with human-made categories a couple hundred years ago and not a real science. We see the exact same things also when discussing what is a species and also completely disregarding the reality of horizontal gene transfers etc in the strict, traditional trees. The models are quite wrong and even reduced wrong. There is this one famous article that shows how traditional biology would go and analyze a transistor radio, namely just label its assumed components! Here is the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31697757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31697757