On 3/9/07, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, you've been vague enough that I still can't be sure exactly what you'll consider a "biological system" for the purpose of this discussion, but DNA computing may qualify.
DNA would work but I was really thinking that you might be able to arrange living organisms in such a way that you could input data (in some obscure form) and get information out (in an equally obscure form). For example, putting together colonies of ants in such a way that when you drop bread crumbs near them in a certain pattern (inputting data) they will change their behavior in a way that performs a computation. I suppose you could say that all biological systems perform constant computations regarding how to stay alive, but that doesn't allow you to execute arbitrary code using that system. Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
