Amorphous computers, liquid software, and Artificial Chemistries

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Amorphous computers, liquid software, and Artificial Chemistries

The strange computers in Tired Light 2

"Generally speaking, membrane computing is a branch of natural computing which investigates computing models abstracted from the structure and functioning of living cells and from their interactions in tissues or higher order biological structures. The problem here is that though we understand what we are facing, Tired Light 2 systems -so to speak- refer to non-Earth biological structures, therefore in order to understand how these systems work and perform computations, we need to gain a knowledge about the biology of those non-terrestrial biological structures."

"Earth’s core must influence all materials and life situated above its position inside the rotating planet."

"In order to realize any logical function, we not only need to be able to realize elementary logical functions but also be able to interconnect them in an arbitrary way, something at which organic tissue-like computers excel."



"AND and NOT logical functions form a logical basis, that is, any logical function can be realized from a combination of ANDs and NOTs only. This, however, only holds in a 3D world. In higher dimensions you need more than just AND and NOT gates, and this would explain the extra complexity we find in Tired Light 2 systems. The computer, if it is a computer, might be performing computations using a logic unknown to us."

"We were naively expecting to find some sort of extremely advanced control room, with beautiful displays and pulsating lights, I mean, an extrapolation of our data centers somehow. What we found has nothing to do with it, it was like entering inside a giant jelly fish, with organic tissue-like structures, fleshy membranes, carthilages here and there, and a highly toxic environment. That's what the computers of these beings look like. No wires, no metallic parts, no chips, no lights, just sticky organic substances everywhere"

"Were we to judge future developments in advanced computing by what we've found in Tired Light 2, quantum computing is not the path to walk. Membrane computing is."

"I for one, would prefer to have non-organic, physical hardware; I cannot see how an organic computer would withstand the radiation levels you find in outter space. But again, it may well be the case this is not a computer, but a being, a life form. It is as if we crash in a remote planet and they wonder whether the dead crew inside the crashed spacecraft is a computer, or it is the crew. What is a human? Isn't an organic computer after all?"

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