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What would that look like. Is there an implementation of the finite difference method in biology somehow?
by mountainreason 10mo ago
What would that look like. Is there an implementation of the finite difference method in biology somehow?
- kragen 10mo agoI'd be surprised.
- mountainreason 10mo agoYeah thanks, me too. So I'm wondering what point 22 is getting at. How could that even be possible?
- kragen 10mo agoBiology can use discrete methods; we have discrete neurons (and other cells), discrete chemical species like ATP, discrete amino acids, discrete genes made of discrete nucleotides, etc.
- mountainreason 10mo agoFur sure. But I don't get how that leads to an expectation that our biology is computing and utilizing derivatives in a computational graph. Point 22 seems to imply that the other finds it notable that that isn't happening.
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