?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=COMPUTER+SIMULATION+AND+COMPUTABILITY%0AOF+BIOLOGICAL+SYSTEMS&rft.creator=Baianu%2C+Professor+I.C.&rft.creator=Lin%2C+Ms.+H.C.&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.description=The+ability+to+simulate+a+biological+organism+by+employing+a+computer+is+related+to+the%0Aability+of+the+computer+to+calculate+the+behavior+of+such+a+dynamical+system%2C+or+the+%22computability%22+of+the+system.*+However%2C+the+two+questions+of+computability+and+simulation+are+not+equivalent.+Since+the+question+of+computability+can+be+given+a+precise+answer+in+terms+of+recursive+functions%2C+automata+theory+and+dynamical+systems%2C+it+will+be+appropriate+to+consider+it+first.+The+more+elusive+question+of+adequate+simulation+of+biological+systems+by+a+computer+will+be+then+addressed+and+a+possible+connection+between+the+two+answers+given+will+be+considered.+A+conjecture+is+formulated+that+suggests+the+possibility+of+employing+an+algebraic-topological%2C+%22quantum%22+computer+(Baianu%2C+1971b)%0Afor+analogous+and+symbolic+simulations+of+biological+systems+that+may+include+chaotic+processes+that+are+not%2C+in+genral%2C+either+recursively+or+digitally+computable.+Depending+on+the+biological+network+being+modelled%2C+such+as+the+Human+Genome%2FCell+Interactome+or+a+trillion-cell+Cognitive+Neural+Network+system%2C+the+appropriate+logical+structure+for+such+simulations+might+be+either+the+Quantum+MV-Logic+(QMV)+discussed+in+recent+publications+(Chiara%2C+2004%2C+and+references+cited+therein)or+Lukasiewicz+Logic+Algebras+that+were+shown+to+be+isomorphic+to+MV-logic+algebras+(Georgescu+et+al%2C+2001).+&rft.publisher=Pergamon+Press%2C+Ltd.&rft.contributor=Witten%2C+Professor+Matthew&rft.date=1986&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3718%2F1%2FCOMPUTER_SIMULATIONCOMPUTABILITYBIOSYSTEMSrefnew.pdf&rft.identifier=++Baianu%2C+Professor+I.C.+and+Lin%2C+Ms.+H.C.++(1986)+COMPUTER+SIMULATION+AND+COMPUTABILITY+OF+BIOLOGICAL+SYSTEMS.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3718%2F