Is the endocrine system Turing complete? 🤔
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For such things I fall back to Lambda Calculus,the Turing eq, a simpler concept.Translate a string to another string by substituting “placeholder’ params with the actual ones.Protein manufacturing from Gene follows a similar translation process.Can we do any computation with it?
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Well obviously I mean finite-memory practical Turing machine, not infinite tape.
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Yes, in the sense that you can take the signaling mechanisms of the endocrine system to implement an arbitrary algorithm. Rick could probably rig a passable pocket calculator from the collected glands and receptors of a few dozen fresh corpses.
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