The
upper limit of Moore’s law
According to Moore's Law the number of transistors that can be inexpensively
placed on an integrated circuit is raising exponentially, doubling approximately
every two years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
Apparently Moore’s exponential function approaches its limit. Soon it will
be impossible to pack more transistors into an integrated circuit.
It is striking that software did not evolve so fast. According to Wirth’s
law software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating and computer
performance evolves much slower. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
What will happen next? Massively parallel computers perform better, yet are
also impeded by Wirth’s law. In addition the allocation of processors to program
segments is extremely complicated and inefficient, lowering computer performance.
Why not consider what Nature has to offer?
Signals in the “brain computer” travel much slower than transistor electrons.
Action potentials travel from 10 – 100 m/s. Nevertheless the organism
controls myriad processes “computing” in parallel. What is its secret? First
it is a massively parallel non-linear computer which has been called Wisdom
of the Body (WOB).
In the traditional computer processors hardly interact and interaction is
linear. In the WOB computer all processes interact non-linearly.
In other words, interaction changes the process structure, which obviously
does not apply to processor interactions. Such an interaction is called also
embodiment.
In traditional computers control is generally from the top down, while the
control of WOB processes is from bottom up.
These two requirements can be modeled with CA. Please inspect an elementary
unit of such a WOB computer, the Proliferon,
which may be regarded as its byte.