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Yeah, I've watched many of his talks and this has always bothered me. The biological model would be almost entirely asynchronous messaging without direct coupli
by 0x445442 1y ago
Yeah, I've watched many of his talks and this has always bothered me. The biological model would be almost entirely asynchronous messaging without direct coupling. Something more like sending messages to an event bus.
- Rochus 1y agoI don't think the term "asynchronous" adequately covers the situation. Even asynchronous messages are sent to specific objects in OO. In biological systems, senders and receivers do not know each other, or are not even aware of each other's existence. A model from computer science that corresponds better to biological systems is that of the untyped queue. But in biology, information is encoded not only in the type, but e.g. also in concentration of molecules; there is also no message order, but communication is subject to stochastic processes.