Cell happens to be a fairly straightforward abstraction in biology. If you however more a bit further out to concepts like muscle things become less clear.
A layperson might think that a muscle is a unit that can be activated as one unit. That’s not true and it’s possible to activate parts of a muscle. The unit of a muscle comes from what makes sense for surgeons to cut with knifes. It’s quite possible that in many applications where you don’t cut people apart with knifes you could find a better abstraction.
After ICD-10 added important classifications such as W59.22 Struck by turtle our main ontology for illnesses, the ICD-11 just added SG29 Triple energizer meridian pattern and SF57 Liver qi stagnation pattern I think it’s clear that there are many possible ways to model reality.
Cell happens to be a fairly straightforward abstraction in biology. If you however more a bit further out to concepts like muscle things become less clear.
A layperson might think that a muscle is a unit that can be activated as one unit. That’s not true and it’s possible to activate parts of a muscle. The unit of a muscle comes from what makes sense for surgeons to cut with knifes. It’s quite possible that in many applications where you don’t cut people apart with knifes you could find a better abstraction.
After ICD-10 added important classifications such as W59.22 Struck by turtle our main ontology for illnesses, the ICD-11 just added SG29 Triple energizer meridian pattern and SF57 Liver qi stagnation pattern I think it’s clear that there are many possible ways to model reality.