Category: Science/philosophy content
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Resources for planarian memory experiments
Some thoughts about planaria for memory experiments, including references to literature on memory transfer and some protocols and manuals.
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Some thoughts on memory, goals, and universal hacking
A transcript on some thoughts on memory, goals, universal hacking, and the evolution of agents.
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On biology and computation: a dialogue between Chris Fields and Tyler Clark
A dialog between Chris Fields, Tyler Clark, me, and Karl Friston on the topic of life and computation.
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A talk given to an undergraduate bioengineering and regenerative medicine class
This is a talk for an undergraduate class on regenerative medicine in Tufts’ Biomedical Engineering department, including transcript of the Q&A at the end.
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A talk given at our Center by Naama Brenner on exploratory learning in transcriptional networks
A talk by Naama Brenner on exploratory learning in gene networks, and a list of papers on related topics.
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Some links between brain and body: connections between behavioral (3D) and anatomical spaces
Some thoughts on control in behavioral, anatomical, and other spaces.
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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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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.
