by haecceity on 1/5/2020, 11:17:23 PM
by m3kw9 on 1/5/2020, 10:06:58 PM
Imagine in the Stone Age where people discovered and used this
by f0ok on 1/6/2020, 1:27:37 AM
"I acknowledges pearl oyster mushrooms P. ostreatus for their cooperation in the studies."
by sporkologist on 1/6/2020, 2:47:01 AM
It's the dawn of mycocomputing!
by basementcat on 1/5/2020, 10:08:36 PM
+1 for the acknowledgements.
The author has done quite a bit of work on computing with slime mold and other biological substrates.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Adamatzky%20A%5BAu...
by carapace on 1/6/2020, 2:14:25 AM
See also "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" (youtube.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698
by dang on 1/6/2020, 12:37:18 AM
Related from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21962075
by bwang29 on 1/5/2020, 8:24:21 PM
So, from this, it would be true that any set of living things can be modeled into a general purpose computing device that can process certain Turing complete language.
by zzzeek on 1/6/2020, 2:39:56 AM
by steve1977 on 1/6/2020, 8:19:38 AM
I have to read some Rudy Rucker again...
by shireboy on 1/5/2020, 10:30:13 PM
This was part of the plot of a recent Star Trek Discovery season. Left me wondering if writers had eaten mushrooms...
So they made some gates out of fungus?
> Thus, it would take about half an hour for a signal in the fungal computer to propagate 1 m. The low speed of signal propagation is not a critical disadvantage of potential fungal computers, because they never meant to compete with conventional silicon devices.
> Likely application domains of fungal devices could be large-scale networks of mycelium which collect and analyse information about environment of soil and, possibly, air and execute some decision-making procedures.
Pretty neat. There's a computer growing in the corner of my room.