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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run2-c8Morphogenesis as collective basal cognition
Levin-influenced framework treating tissue-level morphogenesis as goal-directed, problem-solving intelligence via bioelectric signaling.
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- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds6 members
- Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms5 members
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds4 members
- Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates3 members
- The collective intelligence of evolution and development2 members
- Sustainability and Morphogenesis: The Birth of a Living World2 members
- The computational boundary of a 'self': developmental bioelectricity drives multicellularity and scale-free cognition2 members
- Darwin's agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology2 members
- Living Things Are Not (20th Century) Machines: Updating Mechanism Metaphors in Light of the Modern Science of Machine Behavior1 member
- Harmony-Seeking Computations: a Science of Non-Classical Dynamics based on the Progressive Evolution of the Larger Whole1 member
- Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue1 member
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence1 member
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Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.
- Bioelectric morphogenesis & anatomical intelligence26 shared
- Morphogenesis as collective goal-directed cognition16 shared
- Geometric dynamics in embryonic morphogenesis3 shared
- Morphogenesis as distributed cellular cognition2 shared
- Morphological cognition and collective cellular intelligence1 shared
- Bioelectric state as morphogenetic collective decision1 shared
- Bioelectric codes in collective morphogenesis1 shared
- Causal emergence in biological systems1 shared
- Bioelectric computation and morphological intelligence1 shared
- Bioelectric networks as morphogenetic cognition1 shared
- Bioelectric computation of morphological information1 shared
- Bioelectric computation beyond neural systems1 shared
Claims (25)
- Among strategies for dealing with sustainability, morphogenesis alone can deal with ALL the issues of sustainability together.Second key proposition asserting the comprehensive integrative power of morphogenesis versus piecemeal technical approaches.
- When environments are built by morphogenesis they will of their own accord become sustainable.First key empirical proposition of the lecture: morphogenetic processes inherently produce sustainable outcomes without explicit technical mandates.
- Collective pursuit of organ-level morphogenetic goalsLevin's central claim that somatic cells coordinate not only their own proliferation but also toward massive anatomical structures—limb length, face configuration—as unified goal-seeking units.
- DNA, bioelectric fields, and specialized AI hardware blur hardware/software distinctions.Biological and technological systems increasingly manifest properties of both hardware and software simultaneously.
- If intercellular signalling (not genes) is the cognitive medium of a morphogenetic individual, it should be possible to exploit tools of neuroscience to read, interpret and re-write its information content for predictive control.Strong prediction from basal cognition framework; validated in planaria and other species through bioelectric manipulation.
- Morphogenesis and cognition are fundamentally linked as collective problem-solving
- Morphogenesis as sensorimotor cognitionLevin's assertion that embryonic body-patterning reflects the same information-integration and goal-pursuit mechanisms as neural sensorimotor control.
- Morphogenesis by cell groups is a natural example of a collective intelligence problem.Reframes developmental biology as a cognitive science.
- Morphogenesis can be viewed as the result of the behavior of swarm intelligence of cells.Cells collectively solve anatomical problems, analogous to collective intelligence in social insects.
- Morphogenesis constitutes basal cognition because it requires information integration and coordinated action characteristic of problem-solving in anatomical morphospace.
- Morphogenesis could be trainable via reinforcement learning, enabling a new path to anatomical control in regenerative medicine.Suggests training tissues as an alternative to micromanaging molecular pathways.
- Morphogenesis is a goal-directed process, not a hardwired emergent clockwork.Developmental systems reach invariant target morphology from diverse starting conditions, like a thermostat.
- Morphogenesis is a result of collective activity where cells cooperate toward a specific, invariant target morphology, exhibiting goal-directedness.Frames developmental biology as an instance of basal cognition.
- Morphogenesis is an autonomous process in geometry itself, arising from physical phenomena and geometric dynamics with relatively little dependence on genetic guidance.Claim supported by Goodwin's work, shifting emphasis away from DNA as sole morphogenetic driver toward form-generating principles inherent in spatial configuration.
- Morphogenesis is an example of basal cognition, a collective intelligence of cells navigating morphospace.Asserts that developmental biology can be understood through the lens of problem-solving and cognitive concepts.
- Morphogenesis is an example of collective intelligence and goal-directed activity.Cells work together to build structures in a context-dependent manner, meeting James' test of 'fixed ends with varying means'.
- Morphogenesis is the behavior of a collective intelligence of cells solving problems across multiple scales.Levin's main interpretive reframing: rejects purely emergentist/mechanistic views of development in favor of treating morphogenesis as cybernetic, goal-directed problem-solving by cellular swarms.
- Morphogenetic physiology is the 'software' layer between genome and phenotype
- Morphogenetic tissues can be trained via reinforcement learning for specific anatomical outcomes, bypassing the complexity of genomic editing.Proposes a biomedical strategy of controlling growth by exploiting the learning capacity of cellular collectives.
- Physiological software dynamics, not genetic hardware, determine organism phenotype.Authors' central interpretive assertion: genome specifies cell-level components but outcome is product of dynamics not easily predicted from genetic sequence.
- Problems of cognition (mind) and morphogenesis (body) share fundamental commonality in competent problem-solving.Authors propose deep principle unifying neuroscience and developmental biology through goal-directed behavior as common thread.
- Regenerative medicine lacks predictive science of morphogenesis
- Regulative morphogenesis is a kind of behavior of cellular collectives traversing anatomical morphospace.Posits that the collective movement toward a target morphology is akin to goal-directed behavior.
- The randomization of bioelectric state and downstream morphogen gradients is interpreted with respect to anterior-posterior organ identity by collectives, not by individual cells.Argues that stochastic outcomes in regeneration are still collective decisions, not cellular chaos.
- Understanding Self-plasticity and morphogenesis has direct implications for regenerative medicine and neural repair.