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A comment on Ask HN: Should the CPU be compared to the mitochondrion instead of the brain?. Parent comment
Anyway, I think that ribosomes have a very restrictive type of "calculation", you can compare them with a Jackard Loom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom or a Pianola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano . Perhaps an old programmable calculator.
Currently the CPU have a lot more of computational abilities.
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Anyway, I think that ribosomes have a very restrictive type of "calculation", you can compare them with a Jackard Loom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom or a Pianola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano . Perhaps an old programmable calculator.
Currently the CPU have a lot more of computational abilities.