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jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧬 Is Life a Form of Computation?

「 Biological computing is “massively parallel,” decentralized, and noisy. Your cells have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 quintillion ribosomes, all working at the same time. Each of these exquisitely complex floating protein factories is, in effect, a tiny computer — albeit a stochastic one, meaning not entirely predictable 」

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-life-a-form-of-computation/

#compsci #biology #intelligence

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