{"id":236769,"date":"2026-05-08T06:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-ant-and-the-absolute-how-feynman-discovered-bio-computing-in-a-sink"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:12:27","slug":"the-ant-and-the-absolute-how-feynman-discovered-bio-computing-in-a-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-ant-and-the-absolute-how-feynman-discovered-bio-computing-in-a-sink","title":{"rendered":"The Ant and the Absolute: How Feynman Discovered Bio-Computing in a Sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOTH_qr4E40?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why does an ant, with a brain smaller than a grain of sand, find the shortest path better than a human engineer?<\/p>\n<p>Richard Feynman didn\u2019t learn about ants from a textbook. He learned by sitting on his bathroom floor with a sugar cube and a stopwatch. What he discovered wasn\u2019t just biology\u2014it was a biological supercomputer solving the \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does an ant, with a brain smaller than a grain of sand, find the shortest path better than a human engineer? Richard Feynman didn\u2019t learn about ants from a textbook. He learned by sitting on his bathroom floor with a sugar cube and a stopwatch. What he discovered wasn\u2019t just biology\u2014it was a biological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}