[HN Gopher] Swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates ...
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       Swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates (2012)
        
       Author : sohkamyung
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-03-17 05:47 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | trav4225 wrote:
       | Yes, but can I play Doom on it?
        
       | seanalexander wrote:
       | What a wonderful instance of carcinisation!
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
        
       | yablak wrote:
       | Didn't I read about this in The Three-Body Problem?
        
         | nixass wrote:
         | My first thought exactly
        
       | anonymousiam wrote:
       | Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26494871
        
       | dr_dshiv wrote:
       | What's more complex: the logical gate made of crabs or an
       | individual crab? What's more complex, a corporation or a person?
       | A worm or a single cell in a worm?
        
         | jrochkind1 wrote:
         | It would take an AWFUL lot of crabs acting as logic gates to
         | model a crab brain or an entire crab. A single logic gate by
         | itself is clearly less complex than a soldier crab.
         | 
         | But if you really could model a crab brain perfectly in a
         | turing machine (not clear you can), then let's make a crab
         | brain out of crab logic gates, and then use those mega-crab-
         | brains to make more mega logic gates, and put together a bunch
         | of those to... you'd probably run out of crabs.
        
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