Category: Science/philosophy content
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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.
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On artificial beings
A few links to relevant papers, and some artwork and text around questions of AI and biological Selves.
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Meet the Anthrobots: a new living entity with much to teach us
Meet the Anthrobots – a new synthetic morphology creation with implications for biomedicine, biorobotics/bioengineering, and basic evolutionary developmental biology.
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A recent talk: 1 hr for an audience into data science, software, and information in the context of biomedicine
Here is a talk I gave to an audience working on data science approaches to biomedical discoveries. They were into computer science, and concepts related to software in biology and how to infer interventions and control mechanisms.
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A few quotes on top of my nature photos:
Some interesting quotes to think about, on top of my nature photos.
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Cancer and Cellular Voltage: the amazing slide I never show anymore
I no longer use this amazing slide showing how cell voltage (resting potential) distinguishes between plastic, proliferative cells and quiescent mature ones. It’s true, but it distracts from the bigger picture of bioelectricity as a collective organ-wide phenomenon.
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But Where is the Memory?! A Discussion of Training Gene-regulatory Networks and its Implications
A video and discussion of where memory is stored when networks are trained without changes in structure. Implications for memory and basal cognition, and the difference between 1st and 3rd person access to a memory medium.
