Organic computer?

[fredreload]

Computer and life form mix has been a general consensus these days. Well you can't really develop a laser from organic life, so why not mix machinery with life?

[DrP]

If we can evolve the ability to detect light...  and other animals can evolve the ability to emit light....  then why couldn't another creature evolve such that the light it emits be amplified by stimulated emission?

Imagine that! Imagine a shark with fricking lasers!  You heard it here first!. I reckon that 1500 mutated land capable Russian laser sharks swimming up the Thames would take the whole of London in a few hours with very little resistance.   

[Strange]

  On 4/16/2018 at 11:13 AM, fredreload said:

Computer and life form mix has been a general consensus these days.

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Has it?

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Well you can't really develop a laser from organic life

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We are getting very close to an organic laser: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4913461

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so why not mix machinery with life?

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What sort of machinery? Like artificial heart valves? Or even mechanical hearts?

[fredreload]

  On 4/16/2018 at 12:44 PM, Strange said:

Has it?

We are getting very close to an organic laser: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4913461

What sort of machinery? Like artificial heart valves? Or even mechanical hearts?

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An eel

[Strange]

  On 4/16/2018 at 1:40 PM, fredreload said:

An eel

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Huh?

What about an eel? I mean, it's a tasty fish, alright but I can't see the relevance to this thread.  

[fredreload]

  On 4/16/2018 at 1:43 PM, Strange said:

Huh?

What about an eel? I mean, it's a tasty fish, alright but I can't see the relevance to this thread.  

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You could, incorporate the neuronal structure into that of a computer. Since they both run on electricity. So would you grow a watch built out of neurons on your wrist based on the DNA given high enough mutation rate, that is hard to say.

The eel is an attempt to combine electronics with organic energy.

[Strange]

Ah, you are thinking of the electric eel. (Rather than a real eel)

That would be a rather inefficient (and shocking) way to power a watch. You would need to feed it!

[Bender]

IIRC, electric eels (and many other fish) release regular pulses to sense their environment. Perhaps you could breed one to release a pulse every second, and then a bigger one every minute.

[Masterofthemysticarts]

 Pollulant particles being in raw materials in this thing.