"The problem is this unjustified dichotomy between machine and biology."
There isn't engineering practice in place for developing programmable nanomachines in the way there is for fabricating circuits, but biology demonstrates it is possible. It could be we work from the bottom, learning how to build extremely simple machines, atom by atom, and also work from the top, rationalizing how to manipulate proteins in arbitrary ways. I think we'll find out that our understanding of "programming" is impoverished compared to what living things achieve. http://www.pnas.org/content/109/23/8884.abstract Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
