John Von Neuman believed that all organisms can be though of as information-processing systems. He built on the work of Alan Turing (algorithmic) to create simulations of biological entities. This philosophy lead to the use of cellular automaton. This kind of analysis allowed to gain many insights in biology.Does it make sense to you to reduce the behavior of an organism to the output of an algorithm? There are several things that are not feasible in algorithmic. Randomness is one of these. Does it seem fair to you to consider that we actually produce pseudorandomness, a function with a chaotic behavior that cycle and might end up repeating itself?The questions in short:Can an organism be reduced to as being an algorithm as found in computers?Can an organism produce randomness (random choice, random behavior) or only pseudo-randomness?
Can a biological entity be thought as a simple algorithm? Case-study with the concept of randomness
theoretical neuroscience;behaviorism;philosophy of mind