[HN Gopher] Fungal Computer
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       Fungal Computer
        
       Author : filkatron
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2020-01-05 19:58 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
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       | The author has done quite a bit of work on computing with slime
       | mold and other biological substrates.
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       | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Adamatzky%20A%5BAu...
        
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