[scrozier]

In middle age, I (a computer science grad and working programmer) went to graduate school for molecular biology. In the early days of studying biological systems, I was struck by how much they were like computer code, or at least logic constructs. I remember to this day the moment I realized that my orderly world of 0s and 1s was being saturated and methylated and energized in ways that were utterly unpredictable by (the current state of) simple logic constructs. And that's the day I learned why we still have "wet" labs, to actually test things empirically, rather than vainly try to predict them computationally. :-)

[herval]

Stephen Wolfram's theory is that everything is a massively parallel computation. Pretty fascinating stuff

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...

[zelphirkalt]

Does he define computation? I am asking because just about everything could be seen as some form of computation, given no definition, duh.