On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:53:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:07:12 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 9/29/2018 4:34 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> A bacteria is already a computer (at least), >>> >> >> >> *Really? Then you should be able to identify the entities that store >> binary information. And where is the clock which pulses and advances the >> instruction pointer? And where is the instruction pointer located? AG* >> >> >> Not all computers are von Neumann computers. >> >> Brent >> > > *Maybe he means a parallel processor, but whatever he means should be > spelled out explicitly. One can't just assert, as if it's obvious, that a > bacteria is already a computer. * > > > Of course it is obvious that a bacterium computes things...like swimming > toward nutrients and how to make another bacterium. > > Brent > > Bacterial computing: a form of natural computing and its applications - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971165/
Bacteria make computers look like pocket calculators - https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jul/24/bacteria-computer Bacteria Can Now Be Programmed Like a Computer - https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/43d9en/bacteria-can-now-be-programmed-like-a-computer - pt -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
