I recall reading an article about how E. coli or elegans or something has the ability to amplify signals 1000x through nothing than a clever biological configuration. The fact that proteins have “memory” blows my mind. It’s interesting how the macro scale emulates the micro scale.
I recall reading an article about how E. coli or elegans or something has the ability to amplify signals 1000x through nothing than a clever biological configuration.
Signal transduction pathways do that! This is happening in you right now at massive scale. This is how your senses work. This is how everything works.
The fact that proteins have “memory” blows my mind. It’s interesting how the macro scale emulates the micro scale.
Your DNA has memories at all sorts of temporal resolutions. Generational, cell lineage, temporary, etc. Almost every little biochemical system has equations of state, amplification, memory.
Imagine a spaceship lands that has the most advanced technology that is constructed from abundant molecules, self powered off the planets resources, renews, repairs, and can adapt itself according to the environment's elements. and multiples at no-loss while passes learnings forward to other manifestations of the technology. the door of the spaceship opens, and lo and behold the technology is biological life as we see today.
That's indeed fantastic. It also gave me perspective on something: the reasons there are so many interactions is because of the number of collisions: a water molecule will collide 10^14 times in a second. Mind-boggling stuff.
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I recall reading an article about how E. coli or elegans or something has the ability to amplify signals 1000x through nothing than a clever biological configuration. The fact that proteins have “memory” blows my mind. It’s interesting how the macro scale emulates the micro scale.
Signal transduction pathways do that! This is happening in you right now at massive scale. This is how your senses work. This is how everything works.
Your DNA has memories at all sorts of temporal resolutions. Generational, cell lineage, temporary, etc. Almost every little biochemical system has equations of state, amplification, memory.
Biochemistry is a world of computation.
A thought exercise I read once blew my mind.
Imagine a spaceship lands that has the most advanced technology that is constructed from abundant molecules, self powered off the planets resources, renews, repairs, and can adapt itself according to the environment's elements. and multiples at no-loss while passes learnings forward to other manifestations of the technology. the door of the spaceship opens, and lo and behold the technology is biological life as we see today.
This is a fantastic lay person explanation of how it works. https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
That's indeed fantastic. It also gave me perspective on something: the reasons there are so many interactions is because of the number of collisions: a water molecule will collide 10^14 times in a second. Mind-boggling stuff.