The theory of computational complexity and certain explicitly-stated hypotheses imply limitations on the information processing power of biological systems. Parallelism, special purpose organization, and analog mechanisms may provide speedup critical for life processes, but have little power in the
On the Universal Computing Power of Amorphous Computing Systems
✍ Scribed by Jiří Wiedermann; Lukáš Petrů
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 344 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-0490
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