So they made some gates out of fungus?<p>> Thus, it would take about half an hour for a signal in the fungal computer to propagate 1 m. The low speed of signal propagation is not a critical disadvantage of potential fungal computers, because they never meant to compete with conventional silicon devices.<p>> Likely application domains of fungal devices could be large-scale networks of mycelium which collect and analyse information about environment of soil and, possibly, air and execute some decision-making procedures.<p>Pretty neat. There's a computer growing in the corner of my room.
+1 for the acknowledgements.<p>The author has done quite a bit of work on computing with slime mold and other biological substrates.<p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Adamatzky%20A%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=30443330" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Adamatzky%20A%5BAu...</a>
Related from earlier today: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21962075" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21962075</a>
So, from this, it would be true that any set of living things can be modeled into a general purpose computing device that can process certain Turing complete language.