Invaders !

[--Pete]

Hi,

However, I'm becoming convinced that our ideas about organized thought requiring cellular clusters of neural material are probably wrong as well. There is some evidence of computational ability also happening within complex proteins themselves.

Interesting paper. Mostly, I just skimmed it since I lack the vocabulary to fully understand it. However, the impression I came away with is that those proteins are more like logic gates -- possibly even as complex as logic arrays -- than like processors. Admittedly, the difference appears to be in quantity rather than quality. If Hofstadter's complexity premise in Gödel, Escher, Bach is correct, then neither the logic circuits nor the proteins are complex enough to form the necessary tangled hierarchies -- thus, they lack the ability to be self referential. So, while they can 'processes information', I doubt that they can think. Thus, they may be capable of prejudice but not of opinion. :whistling:

--Pete