[HN Gopher] Fungal Computer ___________________________________________________________________ Fungal Computer Author : filkatron Score : 26 points Date : 2020-01-05 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) (TXT) w3m dump (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) | bwang29 wrote: | So, from this, it would be true that any set of living things can | be modeled into a general purpose computing device that can | process certain Turing complete language. | shireboy wrote: | This was part of the plot of a recent Star Trek Discovery season. | Left me wondering if writers had eaten mushrooms... | m3kw9 wrote: | Imagine in the Stone Age where people discovered and used this | basementcat wrote: | +1 for the acknowledgements. | | The author has done quite a bit of work on computing with slime | mold and other biological substrates. | | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Adamatzky%20A%5BAu... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-05 23:00 UTC)