PubMed · 6960562
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D J Neill. 1982. Masticatory function.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6960562/
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Multiple modes of processing, drawing on interactions at multiple physical scales, contribute to the information processing power of biological systems. Conformational processing is central, since it affords a close coupling of nuclear and electronic coordinates, and hence a closely interleaved classical-nonclassical interface that allows biological systems to draw on the superpositional parallelism of the quantum mechanical wave function. Cells and organisms are pictured as percolation networks that mediate highly selective transductions of information between microscopic and macroscopic forms.
The expected developments in the not too distant future (5-10 years) of molecular electronics and biocomputing (MEBC) are discussed. In the short-term, the study of very specific basic phenomena is expected (e.g. conducting polymers, strange electronic states of insulating polymers, bacteriorhodopsin (BR), arrays of molecules, self-organization of biomaterials, very specific biological systems, quantum coherence in cytoskeletal microtubules, optoelectronic information storage, associative memories, pattern recognition, hierarchical nature of biological information). New application fields outside the range of conventional technology (e.g. randomized algorithms, optoelectronic devices, chemical and biosensors, as well as a certain extent of commercialisation) have also been predicted. In the long-term, the study and solution of much deeper (sometimes scientific fiction-like) problems were foreseen, such as the self-organization of biomaterials, artificial self-reproduction, implementation of artificial cell dynamic control structures based on molecular devices for medical and environmental applications and the construction of neuronal computers as aids to the human brain.
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