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Foil 42 Nature's Concurrent Computers

From HPCC Status -- TeraFlop to Web and Petaflops -- Success and Failure Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * Critical Information in IMAGE
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
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