Hmm. Not in any meaningful sense, no.

I say this as someone who works in a research group on chemoinformatics, involving comparison and analysis of (bio)chemical reactions. For example, here is a drawing (made by graphics software written by me of an atom-atom mapping from my colleague):

cinnamate beta-D-glucosyltransferase

Cinnamate (in cyan) is being attached to the sugar (purple). This is carried out by an enzyme, with a precise arrangement of amino acids in an active site. How on earth would 'electrical interactions' (in general) affect this reaction - or any other?

Okay, so one of the compounds mentioned on wikipedia is this one:

http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.50771.html

which is at least drug-like (I can't find any hits in ChEMBL; haven't tried any other open databases). Another is just phenylacetylglutamine, which is 'just' a metabolite. Do you really think there is a reasonable justification for saying this molecule is active? If the guy uses a mixture of molecules, why not purify the most active ones?

(I do realise, of course, that you are not involved in Burzynski research - just curious for your opinion :)

Do I have to pay to watch it?

I'm curious - how do you 'rule out' religions? For example, some people might think that the Book of Mormon was invented by Joseph Smith. Certainly Scientology was made up.

Is that what you mean? Or is the the test simply : "Do they believe exactly the same things that I believe?"...

Wait, now I'm confused - you are still using 'gravity' as a replacement for 'climate change', right?

Given that there are morons that don't believe in relativity it's not impossible that a thread about climate change has attracted actual gravity deniers.

Well, you know the saying : "There are bold slashdotters, and there are old slashdotters, but no bold old ones". Oh wait, that was pilots.

Yes, it rymes with "shoota" (gun) and "warta" (melted ice).

Hmmm. Maaaybe. Ravines and strongholds are pretty cool. I've yet to open an ender gate, but still. Perhaps mineworks are too extensive and mazelike, and breeding is fairly pointless. The less said about mooshrooms the better, I think.

I thought that an API was in the works, though. It sure would be nice to be able to install mods more easily.

Only tried a few mods, but Equivalent Exchange is very nice. I'm not so sure about BuildCraft, and IndustrialCraft stuff. I quite like the pseudo-medieval/primitive world.

Hmmm. That does sound cool, and the mini-map is nice. Not so sure about the textures or the lighting.

Another alternative is FortressCraft, which is on the XBox. It has lasers, apparently

Well, to be fair, they have moved into beta-beta releases (or 'pre' releases) so what features currently exist or not is always tricky. Personally, I just go to the special:recentchanges page of minecraftwiki to see the latest. Or jeb/notch's twitter feed. Or yogscast. What? What? I'm not addicted! That's nonsense!

Well you're absolutely right that the important thing is what it can do, not what it is called :) I'm not sure how the connectivity of a CA-like computer affects its function. The brain, for example is connected both locally (to nearby neurons) and globally (long-distance axons). I'm no neuroscientist, however, so I don't know how dense the network is.

Apologies, I thought that you were claiming the opposite - that you can make parallel computers serial. I suppose that replicators in CAs are serial, but I assume that you can also use them in parallel. I wonder what the different states of the molecule are.