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NONLINEAR PROCESS. “One of the limitations of the Central Dogma (and, for that matter, the abstract description of a digital computer as a Von Neumann Machine), is that the abstract representation suggests a linear process: one sequence of DNA leads to one mRNA leads to one protein. Clearly, in terms of the cell, this is not the case. The cell manages multiple processes concurrently rather than as a single threaded sequence.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

SEER. “It’s easy to underestimate what the future will bring.” https://lnkd.in/eDmX9xW View in LinkedIn

USING DATA. “Translation of stored information to usable information. This property refers to the mechanisms by which the information on the storage medium device is actually retrieved and passed to the rest of the information processing machinery, i.e. for the subsequent use of the information.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this two weekend series on prions. They reproduce and evolve into different strains. Yet they are simply naked proteins. Is it ridiculous to ask if this is an organism? If you thought that the debate about viruses being alive was quaint, then prepare yourself for a bigger paradigm breaker. As a community, biologists have failed to define life, and thus the search for new life is deeply flawed. Time to get to grips with the basics? View in LinkedIn

MANAGING DATA. “In our model, the DHD can be considered to be partitioned into chromosomes. These form discrete physical entities of genetic material, and are the functional units that serve as the vectors for the transmission of genetic material from cell generation to cell generation.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

LOGIC TREES. “High level formatting of information. This refers to logical structures representing the organization of informational content/data of the system that is imprinted via the low-level formatting of the storage medium device.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX LIBRARY. “As human DNA contains about 3 billion nucleotides constituting genes, regulatory sequences and other non-coding regions all residing in a one-dimensional sequence that is organized in 3-dimensional space, formatting of the DNA data structure is necessarily a far more complex issue than that seen in the CHD.”" " https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

THE LIBRARY. “Low level formatting of information. This refers to the structure and organization of how information can be physically stored and subsequently accessed in a particular medium.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

THE SPEED LIMITATION. “Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) involving electrodes implanted into the human cerebral cortex have recently been developed in an attempt to restore function to profoundly paralyzed individuals. Current BMIs for restoring communication can provide important capabilities via a typing process, but unfortunately they are only capable of slow communication rates.” https://lnkd.in/e3CzqB2 View in LinkedIn

NEURAL INTERFACES. “And we know that stimulating the right centers in the brain can induce sleep or alertness, hunger or satiation, ease or stimulation, as quick as the flip of a switch. Or, if you’re running code, on a schedule. (“Siri, put me to sleep until 7:30, high priority interruptions only. And let’s get hungry for lunch around noon. Turn down the sugar cravings, though.”).” http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/12/the-ultimate-interface-is-your-brain/ View in LinkedIn