On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> As I've said no natural phenomenon has ever been found where nature >> must solve a NP-hard problem to figure out what to do next, >> > > > Protein folding? > Although nobody has proven that protein folding is NP-hard I wouldn't be surprised if it was, but that wouldn't mean that all proteins are that hard it would just mean that there exist some that are, and Natural Selection would weed out those that are too hard to understand and use proteins that are easier for nature to understand. And even so we know that sometimes nature gets confused about how a string of amino acids should fold up, that's what causes Mad Cow Disease and probably a lot of other diseases too. John K Clark -- 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/d/optout.
