[HN Gopher] Swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-18 23:00 UTC)