[pmontra]

A biology level model for computing would be some billion of very small CPU cores each one doing its own thing, interacting with the others (actor model?) and yielding a collective result by averaging their states (by some definition of average.) It could be OK for some problems (simulations of physical systems?) but not much for others (placing a window in the middle of the screen.)

By the way, a lot of small CPU cores is what we use inside graphic cards. However they are not actors. They are very deterministic. The Newtonian physics model.

[GenericCanadian]

Sounds a lot like what Wolfram is working on with categorizing cellular automota. Strikes me that a lot of his work is very biological in its search for axioms from experimentation

[PeterStuer]

How about we start by introducing time, interactions with things exterior to the subsystem modeled?