X-Message-Number: 25157 From: Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:00:08 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #25138 The case against biology From T. Donaldson: > > Besides, just what's your prejudice against devices that act biologically, > anyway? A variable FPGA might turn out to be a quite valuable device, > even if it's not made with silicon. > First, there is a very large investment in biological technologies today, so, what we can do here will do nothing more. Second, all big progress are made after the use of new instruments and detectors. When CI for example looked for better researches, their investment came to a new better microscope. That is why I think we must concentrate on scaners with 3D molecular resolution and organ wide field. From the information of such a device an electronics device could be programmed to simulate a brain, the same thing can't be done with biological cells. van Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25157