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When the path is never shortest: a reality check on shortest path biocomputation
Richard Mayne
Shortest path problems are a touchstone for evaluating the computing performance and functional range of novel computing substrates. Much has been published in recent years regardi…
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Slime mould: the fundamental mechanisms of cognition
Jordi Vallverdu, Oscar Castro, Richard Mayne +7
The slime mould Physarum polycephalum has been used in developing unconventional computing devices for in which the slime mould played a role of a sensing, actuating, and computing…
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Computers from plants we never made. Speculations
Andrew Adamatzky, Simon Harding, Victor Erokhin +5
We discuss possible designs and prototypes of computing systems that could be based on morphological development of roots, interaction of roots, and analog electrical computation w…