Address busses works well and are at the heart of both processor and memory design on a variety of scales. Address busses make computers a logical machine for when they are properly clocked we can reason knowing all elements have been considered. But this pattern is rare or nonexistent in nature. Let's understand why.
A position statement from the Biological Framings of Problems in Computing workshop held April 17-19, 2002, at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. post 