The Complexity Between The Bits

By Vidya Chandran Darbari and Ashish Darbari A recent conversation about carbon intelligence and silicon intelligence stayed with me. What interested me was not which one wins, but the complexity we take on as we ask silicon to sense, interpret, decide and act. My work as an experimental structural biologist taught me to ask what a structure could explain, and what it could not. Solving a molecular structure was not the same as explaining the behaviour of the system to which it belonged. The nex