the great grand amoeba of computing

Turing's single-celled millions-old ancestors are Turing-complete. Oxytricha and Stylonychia, two ciliated protozoans, are Turing-complete biocomputers that rewrite their DNA to perform calculations. They've been at it for several million years. Keen.

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