A cell's ribosome computes. it receives input sets of mRNA and uses these to assemble specific amino acid chains. Change the input mRNA and you get a different folded protein chain as the product.
________________________________ From: Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 8:46 AM Subject: Re: Scientists claim discovery of life coming to Earth from space On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:43 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/23/2013 12:16 PM, John Mikes wrote: > > Why do you hold 'computational resources' as fundamental to being alive? > Computation is a human mental peculiarity - an 'evolved resource' by 'being > alive' (whatever that means). > > > In the sense of writing equations and numbers down or doing arithmetic. But > in the more general sense of information processing, then computation is an > essential part of metabolism. It means taking stuff that's not you, and > using code that describes your stuff, transform it into stuff that is you. Nice. > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
