|This seems to represent IDC. Not sure why. Photo credit: La Douleur Exquise.|
Are Mind and Brain Really Software and Hardware?Yet, not very long before, the same people declared the following to be correct and awesome--because it says cells are robots:
Or is that an analogy that just doesn’t really work?
Recently, we were looking at “Another reason the human mind is not like a computer” (Vishwanathan Anand) , and someone reminded us of an older article, by Ari N. Schulman, “Why Minds Are Not Like Computers” (The New Atlantis, Winter 2009),
“Cell” Contest JudgedTo sum up: Cells are very complicated nano-automata; minds-brains are not computers.
The winner is niwrad with this (slightly edited) gem:
“A ‘cell’ is a bio-cybernetic chemical automaton able to self-replicate, self-organize, and perform metabolic functions by means of nano-level molecular machines controlled by internal digital software stored in information rich polymers.”
Niwrad, has been contacted and when he provides an address his prize will be shipped out.
Thank you to all of the participants.
The fact that IDCs do no science have none supporting them is a problem, but an equally grave problem is that they don't have a formal, consistent heuristic.