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Life after Death: in another world, at another scale
Thoughts on the implications of multiscale competency architecture of living organisms for the concept of death and specifically recent data on the thanatotranscriptome.
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You come from an egg (not an insult!)
A funny story about my court appearance in which I learned that many people do not know that we humans come from an egg.
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Trophic memory, deer, and a truly unique scientific object
Trophic memory in deer antlers: a remarkable phenomenon showing how the morphogenetic collective intelligence learns from experience. In this post I talk about George Bubenik, who discovered this phenomenon, and our modern work on studying it in planaria.
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What groups of embryos know: toward a hyper-developmental biology
This is an explanation of a new paper on how embryos help each other develop and what it means.
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What do algorithms want? A new paper on the emergence of surprising behavior in the most unexpected places
Our latest preprint shows some unexpected competencies and behavior in simple sorting algorithms, with implications about unconventional and minimal substrates for basal cognition.
