I have been wondering if a better representation of a cell would actually be a large centralised message “queue”, which represents the state of the cell somehow (one entry for each metabolite molecule, or for each proteoform).
The enzymes/proteins would then sample this queue, and return the message, process the message, or add new state to the queue. So this is essentially a large decentralised message processing mechanism, and what you would expect is that over time the state of the queue would shift, representing a shift in the state of the cell.
The enzymes/proteins would then sample this queue, and return the message, process the message, or add new state to the queue. So this is essentially a large decentralised message processing mechanism, and what you would expect is that over time the state of the queue would shift, representing a shift in the state of the cell.