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The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012)

24 pointsby lioeterstoday at 1:59 AM3 commentsview on HN

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visargatoday at 3:41 AM

This fits perfectly with my philosophy which says cost constraints determine internal structure in a system, structure and cost evolve together. While philosophers like to ignore costs and come up with "ideal conceivers" as if they would inherit our limited concepts but just have unlimited computational budget.

The "Chinese Room" has the rule book baked in from the start, costs were hidden. When you remove cost from the system of course you can't see the semantics.

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teiferertoday at 8:28 AM

If anybody is confused what this is about, considering that cellular automata are a thing in CS: This is about cell biology.