> On 29 Sep 2018, at 14:59, Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:34:15 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 7:16:41 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal 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 > > > > There is the famous tic-tac-toe playing enzymes [ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing#Tic-tac-toe_game ] created in > 2002. Maybe the first synbio life forms to compute things. (More recent > little biocomputers are in the news all the time.)
Intersting. I have myself work with the geneticist René Thomas on how far we can program a bacteria to do some typical elementary calculation. He succeeded in implementing the if then else, and some infinite loop, like adding a plasmid (a little circular DNA strand) back in and out the main bacterial “chromosome”. Unfortunately, the mathematicians refuse that I continue this cooperation (which was my master thesis) and ask me to work on forcing theory in set theories with classes. We did biocomputing 40 years ago. I planned a concentration of bacteria and bacteriophages allowing a vey huge parallel processing. I have kept contact with biologist and biochemist all my life. I really discovered the universal machine in biology book, before discovering that all this was already implement in the numbers, which makes me decide to study mathematical logic instead. My goal has always been philosophical or theological, but those field are sick since long (since 529, precisely albeit symbolically). Bruno > > - 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
