I was excited by the title, but they don't really make the case for the analogy other than a few remarks (cells are building blocks, feedforward loops). Off the

I was excited by the title, but they don't really make the case for the analogy other than a few remarks (cells are building blocks, feedforward loops). Off the top of my head, there are other concepts you could discuss: emergence, complexity, weak interactions, statistical machines, encoding, networks, etc. Its clearly a thorough essay, but not the interdisciplinary work I was hoping for. I highly recommend reading the Alon book cited though; that book is fantastic.