Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:33:56 -0500
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <bradmcc-AT-cloud9.net>
Subject: Re: ON COMPUTING WITH DNA


Arun-Kumar Tripathi wrote:
> 
> Greetings Lists,
> 
> With the quote from Max Born (1882-1970) --I believe there is no philosophical
> high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a
> jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as
> we proceed...I found interesting references and literatures on computing
> with DNA, also known as bimolecular computing!
> 
> In 1936, the mathematician Alan M. Turing (1912-1954) proposed
> consideration of an abstract computer that subsequently came to
> be known as a "Turing machine".
[snip]
> As a mathematician, Turing's interest was to
> determine the universe of problems capable of being solved by
> such a machine
[snip]

I distinctly remember one day, as I was meandering thru the
stacks in the IBM Research Library, opening his mother's biography of Turing,
and reading that she asserted that he said that if ever we
construct a machine which really thinks:

    "We shan't inderstand how it does it."

Yours in that living presen{t|ce} of discourse which encompasses 
everything -- including (e.g.) all computational processes....

\brad mccormick

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