The paper makes the case, through a historical review and the authors' prior simulation work, that theoretical biology should be unified around information processing and computation.
Lateral inhibition in relaxation oscillators provides a basis for computation
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Coupled relaxation oscillators, realized via chemical or other means, can exhibit a multiplicity of steady states, characterized by spatial patterns resulting from lateral inhibition. We show that perturbation-initiated transformations between these configurations, mapped to binary strings via coarse-graining, provide a basis for computation. The rules governing these transitions emerge from an underlying effective energy landscape shaped by the global and local stabilities of these states. Our results suggest a framework by which far-from-equilibrium systems may encode a computational logic.
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Broken Symmetries, Information and Emergence: What is theory, that biology should be mindful of it?
The paper makes the case, through a historical review and the authors' prior simulation work, that theoretical biology should be unified around information processing and computation.