  Presented with sensory challenges, living cells employ extensive noisy,
fluctuating signalling and communication among themselves to compute a
physiologically proper response which often results in symmetry breaking. We
propose, based on the results of a coupled stochastics oscillators model that
biological computation mechanism undertaken by insulin secreting beta-cells
consists of a combination of dual intracellular Ca$^{2+}$ release processes to
ensure multilayered exploration contributing to enhanced robustness and
sensitivity. The computational output is what is macroscopically observed as
disorder-order phase transition in collective beta-cell response to nutrient
concentration increase. Based on the analogies from previoulsy described
examples of biological computation, we argue that the initial response may be
followed by an adaptive phase to expand the sensory spectrum and consolidate
memory.
