Computation is a Lense
“Face It,” says psychologist Gary Marcus in The New York Times, “Your Brain is a Computer”.
“Face It,” says psychologist Gary Marcus in The New York Times, “Your Brain is a Computer”.
Freerange Vol.8 is looking for articles, ideas, images, stories, illustrations, inventions, or anything else that might contribute to the theme: animals, humans, robots and the borders and boundaries between them.
Systemics, a revolutionary paradigm shift in scientific thinking, with applications in systems biology, and synthetic biology, have led to the idea of using silicon computers and their engineering principles as a blueprint for the engineering of a similar machine made from biological parts. Here we describe these building blocks and how they can be assembled to a general purpose computer system, a biological microprocessor.