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Bioelectric signaling in bacterial communities

Membrane voltage as collective variable; ion channel-mediated electrical communication in microbial biofilms.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds1 member
Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates1 member

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Bioelectric morphogenesis & anatomical intelligence2 shared
Bioelectric networks as morphogenetic cognition2 shared
Bioelectric signaling in bacterial collectives2 shared

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Ion channels enable electrical communication in bacterial communities (Prindle et al. 2015)Bacteria use similar bioelectric mechanisms to metazoans to coordinate collective behavior.
Membrane voltage acts as a coarse-grained parameter subsuming many ion channel combinations.Cells generalize over ion channel microstates via macrovariable Vmem, enabling repurposing of responses for novel stimuli.