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Cells have an entire range of clocks for tons of purposes. Including a number of "death clocks" tracking a number of things, from passage of time since last cel
by candiodari 9y ago
Cells have an entire range of clocks for tons of purposes. Including a number of "death clocks" tracking a number of things, from passage of time since last cell division (including the famous telomeres), to amount of energy passing through the cell and a lot of more specialized clocks as well. (death clock meaning the cell will self-terminate if the clock runs down)
Just listen to your heartbeat and think again whether your cells don't track the passage of time.
- lngnmn 9y agoAnd which exactly protein acts as a counter? What unit it uses? What is representation of the current value if the counter? How it deals with overflows? Again. There is no counting inside a cell in principle. Only pattern matching of phisical molecular structures and "mechanical" triggers. No counters, no clocks, no notion of a number. Do not confuse oscillations or rotation with time. Processes do exist. Time does not.
- candiodari 9y ago> And which exactly protein acts as a counter? DNA > What unit it uses? That's defined, if rather complex. Essentially it's a basepair sequence. > What is representation of the current value if the counter? It's unary. > How it deals with overflows? It doesn't.