Some people in this list have been interested in "biological metaphors of computing" in the past.... (in fact, the Alexanderian theory of patterns follows a biological metaphor).
In regards to this interest, there are some really interesting publications from Gerhard Mack at: http://lienhard.desy.de/mackag/cs/call.shtml?pub_sy Among them: Simulation of Complex Systems by Enzymatic Computation Universal Dynamics, a Unified Theory of Complex Systems. Emergence, Life and Death To Gauge Theory from a Minimum of a priori Structure Gauge Theory of Things Alive and Universal Dynamics *** This works merges work in Field Theory, Agents, Cellular Automatas, Complexity (auto-catalytic processes, replicators, etc.), patterns, software concepts; that I think makes it very unique. Btw, the "enzymatic computation" is done in a Lisp-like scripting language, - Mike _______________________________________________ patterns-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/patterns-discussion
