SOME DIFFERENCES IN COMPUTATIONAL METHODS

  TRADITIONAL COMPUTING BIOLOGICAL COMPUTATION
SUBSTRATE silicon, ... carbon, ...
PROCESSING sequential massively parallel
CONTROL centralized decentralized
INTERACTIONS global local
SOURCE OF
BEHAVIOR
programmed emerges
(self-organizing)
COMPONENTS fast, reliable slow, noisy
FAULT
TOLERANT
no yes
CONSTRUCTION designed,
built
evolved,
grows
ADAPTIVE some most