I think there are some interesting parallels here with Michael Levin's group's work where they also make the hardware/software analogy. Genes/DNA are said to bu

I think there are some interesting parallels here with Michael Levin's group's work where they also make the hardware/software analogy. Genes/DNA are said to build The 'hardware', that a bioelectric 'software' runs on. A key part of the discovery is that it's not just neurons that form bioelectric networks of cells (via gap junctions etc), even single-celled organisms (in biofilms etc) do it too!