A Mechanical Turing Machine:Blueprint for a Biomolecular Computer

27/12/99

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A Mechanical Turing Machine:Blueprint for a Biomolecular Computer

Medicine in 2050

Medicine in 2050: “Doctor in a Cell”

Possible types of molecular output

Possible types of molecular treatment

Possible types of “cellular doctors”

A design for an intra-cellular computer should be

Logical Design for an Intra-Cellular Computer

1900 Hilbert Posed a Problem

1936 Turing had an answer...

The Turing Machine

Example Control Program:Well-formed Expressions

Example computation

Example Control Program:Well-formed Expressions

A Mechanical Turing Machine

Example Configuration

Example Transition: Before

Example Transition: After

Example Trace Polymer

Cellular output

Computer Output

Author: Ehud Shapiro

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