"It's very much a like a biological system, like a brain," Dr. Tour said.
It's hard to overstate the importance of structure to the proper functioning of a biological system.
The researchers, using a mathematical model, say it is one of the first demonstrations of this kind of self-organized behavior in a biological system.
"We have shown that you can take signals across the planet in the same time scale that a biological system works," Dr. Nicolelis said.
For example, he said, the brain might be thought of as a biological system, but "certain brain problems may not be solvable by taking a biological approach.
But while some of his positions are unfashionable that language is a purely cultural acquisition and not a biological system, for instance—others are quite mainstream.
This same problem exists in a biological system.
(3) The human mind is a biological system and is complex.
They can also allow control of a biological system for therapeutic or bioengineering purposes.
"When you intervene in a biological system you never know exactly what will happen". .
In a biological system, the cochlea in the human ear can perform this conversion function.
