Tag: science
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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.
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How I write papers
My process for writing papers centers around a top-down outline and strict separation of the creative process of story-telling from the mechanics of filling in details.
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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.
