It's a weird analogy, but it makes sense in the context of the paper's authors' statement: > "The most important implication that we wish to claim is that the

It's a weird analogy, but it makes sense in the context of the paper's authors' statement: > "The most important implication that we wish to claim is that the proposed scheme will provide a new perspective for understanding the information-processing principles of certain lower forms of life," Kim, from the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics' National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, told Phys.org. "These lower lifeforms exploit their underlying physics without needing any sophisticated neural systems."