FIGURE 1. Biological systems (right) have similarities and differences to von Neumann computers (left).
From the following article:
2020 Computing: Can computers help to explain biology?
Roger Brent and Jehoshua Bruck
Nature 440, 416-417 (23 March 2006)
doi:10.1038/440416a

In biological systems there is no distinction between processor and output, as function, phenotype and selection act at many levels.
