Re:First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature
by astrodust on Thursday September 12, 2013 @04:43PM
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The natural processes that drive this sort of "innovation" never work as cleanly as we do when being intelligent about such things. There are elements of "microprocessor-like" components in creatures, things that will do AND, OR, NAND and NOR type logic computation through neurons, but they're not packaged into an integrated circuit.
If there was evolutionary pressure to produce an integrated circuit, some form of one would undoubtedly evolve eventually.
If there was evolutionary pressure to produce an integrated circuit, some form of one would undoubtedly evolve eventually.