Metaphors involve immense explanatory power and positive impact predominantly in the scientific education and popularization. Still the use of metaphors in science might be a double-edged sword. Introduction of the computer metaphor to many scientific fields in the last century resulted in reductionist approaches, oversimplifications and mechanistic explanations in science as well as in humanities. In this short commentary we developed further the computer metaphor by prof. Noble and the illusions this metaphor led to in genetics, linguistics and consequently DNA linguistics.

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语言学的幻象和现代综合的幻象：两个平行的故事

隐喻在科学教育和普及中具有巨大的解释力和积极影响。仍然在科学中使用隐喻可能是一把双刃剑。上个世纪，计算机比喻被引入许多科学领域，导致了还原论的方法，科学和人文科学中的简化论和机械学解释。在这篇简短的评论中，我们进一步发展了教授的计算机隐喻。诺布尔和这个隐喻导致了遗传学，语言学和DNA语言学的错觉。