Transduction, if one simply looks it up on Wikipedia, is
most simply a transfer from one source to another. Specifically, it can be used; as it is in my
line of work as a molecular biologist, to describe the transfer of a molecular
signal from one source, say outside a cell, to another source, say the inside
of the cell. In physics it is the
transfer of a donor electron to a recipient and in psychology it is used to
describe extrapolation from a single case into the general case. This blog will be an attempt at
transduction. I will attempt to
‘transduce’ the information that I find in the scientific and popular media
into my own set of prose on specific topics regarding science, science policy,
and scientific theory. Furthermore, I
wish to herein coin the term ‘Transductionist,’ to describe an individual that
believes that they; like all living things, are the culmination of experience
and the source of its passage.