On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:28:34 PM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:53:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, [email protected] 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 > > > - ptIs >
What is a computer -- what is it -- that bacteria can be seen as being like? Why bother to define it. Nothing obvious here except sloppy use of analogies. AG > -- 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.
