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Bioelectric Computation (Ep 39 Re-release)

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What Is a Computing?

The question of what exactly is a computation is something that people argue about osly. So you could imagine a cell network that, as input, receives information from the spatial organization of some other organ and then its job is to decide whether that pattern is correct or not. And that kind of a thing can be nicely handled by an electric circuit. Another example is avery much simpler example, happens with normalization. If i take a a cell, small group of cells in the body and d polarize them, one of the things thatheyare going to do is a th thiss. This is basically an early form of neoplastic transformation. Ti is how cancer begins.

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