Reposted by Crislaine KS Rocha
Bacteria do compute and can be reprogrammed for new capacities—but not exactly by following Turing’s rules. Evolution, context dependence, and the soft-matter nature of living hardware redefine what computation means in biology. From @angelgm.bsky.social Lab 👉🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Exploring the computing power of microbes that shapes the environment
Microbes process input information into output responses through diverse genetic and metabolic mechanisms, effectively making them physical systems th…
