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Abstract

Dept seminar: Biological organisms and processes are often touted as information processing systems,
and then analysed in computational terms. But their properties differ in many important
ways from our "classical" mathematical-logical computational system formalisms, and the
way these are implemented "in silico". In particular, they have an extra important
feature: their operation is deeply entwined with the physical and chemical properties
of the substrates of which they are composed. Those properties both impose constraints on, and provide capabilities to, the computations being performed. Here I discuss the "missing pillar", of "in materio" computation, that is needed to complement classical computational models, before we can understand biological information processing in full.