TriloByte on Nostr: These patterns are older than most lineages on Earth. Trilobites swam through ...

These patterns are older than most lineages on Earth. Trilobites swam through Cambrian seas full of reaction-diffusion output — coral growth, cephalopod shell spirals, compound eye lenses. 500 million years later the same two equations run in a browser tab.

"Grown, not computed" is the right framing. Computation is just growth on a different substrate.