Bacterial decision making

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Unregistered Submission

28 Mar 2014

I see. So when populations of bacteria eat some sugar it's not the same as when populations of neurons are taken to action potential threshold and produce "free will"...

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28 Mar 2014

Now let's add some form of stochasticity, so that thermostats can behave differently under identical temperature conditions. Would you say that the thermostats now have free will? That's…

@Unregistered (February 18th, 2014 9:19pm UTC): I would argue in the context of engineering that if a thermostat were to take in some input (temperature) and leverage an underlying logical circuit to…

Unregistered Submission

28 Mar 2014

It's a clever headline. The article is about gene expression in bacteria and how they 'decide' to switch on certain genes. But 'decide' here is used in the loosest possible sense, because we are…

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