A problem for "Web as distributed programming paradigm"
Jeff Bone
jbone@jump.net
Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:28:04 -0500
"Robert S. Thau" wrote:
> Jeff Bone writes:
> > > To take one obvious example, the huge preponderance of the
> > > chemical work that goes on in the brain goes on inside the neurons
> > > themselves, while the information that passes between neurons is all
> > > done with just a few ions, Na+, K+, and Ca++.
> >
> > Holy shit, Clay. Biology is REST-based? Is that analogy just completely
> > broken, or have you just made a completely profound observation?
>
> I'm not sure I see the analogy, but in any case, the brain is more
> complex ---
Sorry, I was generalizing --- I immediately jumped to the cytokines as a better
analogy than the one Clay actually offered, i.e. the brain.
jb