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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c2-c2Morphogenesis as collective goal-directed cognition
Bioelectric and behavioral frameworks treating morphogenesis as problem-solving intelligence across scales, bridging Alexander's architectural principles with Levin's experimental regenerative biology.
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- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds4 members
- The computational boundary of a 'self': developmental bioelectricity drives multicellularity and scale-free cognition3 members
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds2 members
- Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms2 members
- Sustainability and Morphogenesis: The Birth of a Living World2 members
- Darwin's agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology1 member
- alexander-and-levin.md1 member
- Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue1 member
- Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates1 member
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence1 member
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Claims (15)
- 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.
- 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 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 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 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'.
- 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.
- 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.
- Understanding Self-plasticity and morphogenesis has direct implications for regenerative medicine and neural repair.
- A trained architect who studied with Alexander independently recognized Levin's morphogenesis program as the same investigation conducted in biology.
Findings (3)
- Left-right asymmetry as coherent group decisionEmbryonic domains make random but coordinated decisions on laterality (all cells pick L or R, not speckled); demonstrates cellular collectives decide as unified agents despite stochasticity.
- Morphogenesis operates through multiscale autopoietic processes in which every cell is simultaneously an environment for others, enabling coherent organism formation without predetermined configuration.
- Morphogenetic remapping across ploidy levels and cell sizes