On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 1:03:12 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 12:30:33 AM UTC-5, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> >> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> - pt >>> >> >> 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 >> >> >>> >> > > > *What is a computer?* > > A computer is a device that executes programs. > > If we can synthesize bacteria that execute programs (which we can do), > then these bacteria are computers. > > - pt > >
*Scientists have built the most complex biomolecular computer yet and stored a movie* https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/biocomputer-and-memory-built-inside-living-bacteria - 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.
