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Foil 26 Nature's Concurrent Computers

From Second set of lectures on CPS615 Parallel Computing Overview CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
At the finest resolution, collection of neurons sending and receiving messages by axons and dendrites
At a coarser resolution
Society is a collection of brains sending and receiving messages by sight and sound
Ant Hill is a collection of ants (smaller brains) sending and receiving messages by chemical signals
Lesson: All Nature's Computers Use Message Passing
With several different Architectures

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