Random Thoughts

Cell signalling

Chemistry vs Photonics, Electric, Sound

Chemical signalling allows the signal to carry methods of transformation (essentially code) in addition to communicating state.

Other

IKKB protein and the reversal of insulin resistance

Programming Atoms

Is it engineering or programming?

'Simple' building blocks coming together to create complex interactions

Emergence

Extensible, Reused, Re-factored, Re-appropriated, Hijacked

Contaminate, Corrupt, Desecrate, Mutate, Profane, Taint, Tarnish.

Life seems without qualms to re-appropriate pieces for completely different tasks.

Pragmatic.

I think I'm going to end this tangent here.

Light

Photons are absorbed when they correspond to the difference in energy between two different possible electron states. Observed colours are the inverse of the objects ability to absorb photons.

Light can cause physical deformations in molecular structures. An excited electron will have an orbital that allows it to bond with the second nucleus in a way that requires more energy (is stretched)

Simple organisms seem to be hard-wired to respond to stimuli in predictable manners. Instead, humans get things like desire and impulses that can, to a certain extent, be overridden. The fact that we're significantly less hard-wired, where instead, we come pre-programmed to learn, this is a big deal.

Is the creation of silicon-based computational devices the practice round for when we start playing with carbon?