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>Whatever we are coding in biology will be radically, radically different. ... But I do know that whatever it is, quite a bit of Computer Science will still app
by glenstein 9y ago
>Whatever we are coding in biology will be radically, radically different. ... But I do know that whatever it is, quite a bit of Computer Science will still apply to it.
Whenever there's an article about computation and the brain, or computation and biology, there's always someone showing up saying that the comparison is ridiculous because, hey, biology/computers are different.
To me, that's always felt like it was missing a huge point and I think your comment is one of the better ways I've seen it expressed. I hope we're getting closer to a point where we can eventually turn the page on this, and the Hubert Dreyfus-style arguments/declarations about what "computers can't do."
- dnautics 9y agoit's not about what "computers can't do", it's about what "biology can't do". Or more, appropriately, "what you could maybe push biology's round peg into a square hole and force it to do but we should probably stop and think about whether it's worth the effort".