Forms of life, forms of mind

development. Downstream of this are all the transcriptional cascades required for a good brain. But here’s the key: the correct bioelectric state for proper gene expression is a *spatial pattern* – it’s not the state of single cells, the transcriptional circuits are regulated

by a *difference* between Vmem levels of regions. How do cells sense spatial patterns of voltage across space, to drive the right gene expression downstream? More broadly, how do gene regulatory networks and bioelectric networks interact? What are the information dynamics? Here

we use machine learning to find a model whose behavior matches observed data from the various paper, and then analyze information dynamics. Also the model makes predictions which we confirmed in real embryos. Check out the preprint, because it has a lot of ideas and info which

will surely be removed due to length constraints of journals (argh!).

ensued, due to my background expectation of emails actually going out when I send them. I can always tell if things aren’t coming in (if the tide slows, I know there’s a problem), but I tend to assume that sent emails actually go out right then. Is there any technological

solution to be somehow alerted if the sending functionality is broken? Maybe some kind of automated thing to send itself an email every so often and complain if the ping email doesn’t come back quickly? Kind of nuts how many things broke by the failure of that one assumption.

“that one is morally evil”, in appropriate circumstances?