Biological hypercomputation: A new research problem in complexity theory
This article discusses the meaning and scope of biological hypercomputation (BH) that is to be considered as new research problem within the sciences of complexity. The framework here is computational, setting out that life is not a standard Turing Machine. Living systems, we claim, hypercompute, an...
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- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad del Rosario
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/23760
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21535
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23760
- Palabra clave:
- Biological information processing
Complex systems
Complexification of computation
Nonclassical hypercomputation
Theoretical biology
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| Summary: | This article discusses the meaning and scope of biological hypercomputation (BH) that is to be considered as new research problem within the sciences of complexity. The framework here is computational, setting out that life is not a standard Turing Machine. Living systems, we claim, hypercompute, and we aim at understanding life not by what it is, but rather by what it does. The distinction is made between classical and nonclassical hypercomputation. We argue that living processes are nonclassical hypercomputation. BH implies then new computational models. Finally, we sketch out the possibilities, stances, and reach of BH. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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