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Kevin Ahern's Biochemistry courses BB 350/2017 [1], BB 451/2018 [2], Problem Solving Videos [3]. Having a mechanistic/romanticism-infused worldview based mainly on Descartes' mind/body dichotomy trying to tie together Plato's idealism with Aristotle's empiricism is no longer possible after witnessing how polypeptide chains develop affinity for oxygen, in the least the worldview will be closer to La Mettrie's L'homme Machine [4] rather than Descartes' res duality.

[1] https://youtu.be/JSntf0iKMfM?list=PLlnFrNM93wqz37TUabcXFSNX2...

[2] https://youtu.be/SAIFs_Mx8D8?list=PLlnFrNM93wqyay92Mi49rXZKs...

[3] https://youtu.be/e9khXFSU6r4?list=PLlnFrNM93wqzeZvsE_GKes91C...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_a_Machine ยท https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52090/52090-h/52090-h.htm



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