Re: Cellular automata in Bio-medicine

Zerge wrote:


Ever heard of "models"? Models are not a perfect recreation of reality,
but a simplification of it.
Cellular automata are models.

Model of what? First you have to know the reality. THEN you simplify it.

Bob Kolker
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