From a laymans perspective, can human beings create our own version of DNA, let's say with the use of transistors instead of biological cells, long into the future? Or is DNA just magic and we can't recreate it inside solid state objects like a robot made out of transistors?
The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
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Re: The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
#22Excellent writeup, i love the interactive animation
If you're interested the code for the simulation all lives here: https://github.com/ehmorris/ecoli-chemotaxis/tree/main/ecoli...
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#23From a laymans perspective, can human beings create our own version of DNA, let's say with the use of transistors instead of biological cells, long into the future? Or is DNA just magic and we can't recreate it inside solid state objects like a robot made out of transistors?
Not sure if it's what you meant, but DNA Computing is a whole field!
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#24From a laymans perspective, can human beings create our own version of DNA, let's say with the use of transistors instead of biological cells, long into the future? Or is DNA just magic and we can't recreate it inside solid state objects like a robot made out of transistors?
Not sure if it's what you meant, but DNA Computing is a whole field! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing
Thank you, that sounds interesting
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#25Re: The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
#26On the one hand, this is extremely cool science.
OTOH, English really needs another word, meaning "like intelligence, but it could be simulated by an analog computer with a good handful of of discrete components".
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#27There is a section at the end "How did we figure all this stuff out?". Really amazing. And the scale invariance of nature is clearly visible here. The cell is "small" compared to human scale but it is as complicated as any machine existing in human scale. There is no absolute small or big in nature.
there would be an absolute small, at planck scales (from what we know)
there's also an absolute big, known in cosmology, far beyond the scales of galaxies, galaxy clusters, etc... it's your mom
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#28These ribbons look a bit like wires, transforming the information of an attached molecules through the membrane through physical tension
Re: The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
#29There is a section at the end "How did we figure all this stuff out?". Really amazing. And the scale invariance of nature is clearly visible here. The cell is "small" compared to human scale but it is as complicated as any machine existing in human scale. There is no absolute small or big in nature.
It is a lot more complex than anything made by humans, but it is nothing like as complicated as a human that consists of a huge number of cells.
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#30On the one hand, this is extremely cool science. OTOH, English really needs another word, meaning "like intelligence, but it could be simulated by an analog computer with a good handful of of discrete components".
You can't simulate the intelligence of a cell using just a handfull of analogue components. Cell intelligence is still beyond us.
People tend to underestimated cells just like you do here.