Too little is made of the distinction between silicon substrate, fixed threshold, voltage moderated brittle networks of solid-state switches and protein substra

Too little is made of the distinction between silicon substrate, fixed threshold, voltage moderated brittle networks of solid-state switches and protein substrate, variable threshold, chemically moderated plastic networks of biological switches. To be clear, neither possesses any magical "woo" outside of physics that gives one or the other some secret magical properties - but these are not arbitrary meaningless distinctions in the way they are often discussed.