title	date	draft
Membrane	2021-04-04 22:27:00 +0530	false

Skunkwork for Distributed Cellular AI systems.

Could be something, could be nothing.

Cellular interface: Skeletal API that exposes structures to build intelligent information systems based on Cellular structures.

Vocabulary: Receptors, stages, signals, environment, mutation (driven by external environment)

Membrane was inspired by the podcast "Under The Skin" with Russel Brand featuring Bruce Lipton. Link:

It speaks about the remarkable cellular structure:

• membranes: they are receptors to environment and pass the message to nucleus.
• nucleus: Reproduction center i.e. gonads of the cell: this is what uses the cell culture based on information from the skin(receptors) of the cell i.e. membranes and generates information.

Fundamentally it starts with defining a cell:

%Cell{
  cell_id: pos_integer | bitstring,
  receptor: term,
  signal: term,
  nucleus: term
  }

"..When you look at yourself as a single entity, that is the illusion. That truth, which is the jumpy part, is that we are skin-covered Petri dishes inside of which are 50 trillion-plus cells. Inside the body is the original culture medium called blood.." -- Bruce Lipton

A Cell's lifecycle then becomes honing ML models, better training and shaving off unhealthy cells. Once the cells are ready to split, reproducing becomes easy:

@typedoc """
  Reproduces a cell into two daughter cells replicating from the original copy.
  """
@typedoc """
  Reproduces a cell into two daughter cells replicating from the original copy.
  """
@type reproduce_t :: (%{
  :cell_id => cell_id :: Cell.cell_id_t,
  :cell_stages => cell_stages :: cell_stages_t,
  } -> {new_cell_state_ :: new_cell_state_t, new_cell_state :: new_cell_state_t})

@spec replicate(lifecycle_eligibility_checks, reproduce_t) :: list(new_cell_state_t)
def replicate(%{}, reproduce_fn) do
  # lifecycle_eligibility_checks
  # reproduce
end

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding membrane to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:membrane, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/membrane.