Biology

Roles: cell, neuron, synapse, organ, network, activation, signal, adaptation, evolution

The science of living systems — cells, organisms, ecosystems, and their processes. As a source domain, biology provides structure for understanding growth, adaptation, interconnection, and emergent complexity. The neural sub-domain (neurons, synapses, activation, layers) is especially productive in AI discourse, where it provides the foundational vocabulary for machine learning. Biology imports the assumption that intelligence arises from interconnected, adaptive units — an assumption that shapes architecture choices and public understanding alike.

As Source Frame (9)

• Assimilation and Accommodation → education, mental-experience
• Dunbar's Number
• Generativity → social-dynamics, leadership-and-management
• Microservices Are Biological Cells → software-engineering
• Monotropy
• Neural Network Is a Brain → artificial-intelligence
• Security Is an Immune System → security-analysis
• Vestigial Structure → software-engineering, organizational-behavior
• Vomit Draft → creative-process

Applied To This Frame (2)

• mythology → Chimera
• computing → Genetic Engineering Is Biological Programming