Does the Cell Compute?

Authors:
Giuseppe Trautteur
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Scienze fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II,
Venue:
CiE '07 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Computability in Europe: Computation and Logic in the Real World
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We propose a tentative parallel between computational features and cellular operations in order to explore the possibility that the cell itself is intrinsically and not metaphorically a symbol-processing, computing entity. Central to this possible identification is the notion of virtuality, as understood in computational theory.