The Evolutionary Resilience of Distributed Cellular Computing

摘要: Individual cells process environmental information relevant to their functions using biochemical processes and signalling networks that implement a flow of from the extracellular environment, across cell membrane cytoplasm in which actual cellular computation takes place (in form gene expression). In many cases, be processed are either molecules produced by other or shared - this case processing is distributed, highly parallel computing process, must synchronize, coordinate cooperate. While ability cooperate can increase overall computational power, it also raises an evolutionary stability issue population cooperating at risk cheating invasions, do not but exploit benefits population. The bridge between (as mathematical formalization computing) dynamics natural selection) could lead interesting insights on computing.