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How the Cost of Computation Restricts the Processes of Life


Cellular computation

Cellular computation.

Back in the 1960s, the IBM physicist Rolf Landauer showed that computation comes with a cost: every (irreversible) calculation, he said, always burns through a small amount of energy. That's why silicon chips operate at temperatures hot enough to fry eggs.

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