Hardware-Software Separation in Bioelectric Networks

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Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind

(2023) · Levin, Michael

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Bioelectric morphogenesis & anatomical intelligence
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Levin-led research showing bioelectric signals encode and control anatomical goal states in living systems.
Bioelectric morphogenesis & memory
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Michael Levin's research on bioelectric signaling controlling anatomical goals, regeneration, and cancer.
Bioelectric networks as morphogenetic cognition
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Membrane potential dynamics coordinate multicellular behavior, anatomical memory, and agency scaling across biological levels—studied via melanocyte fate, biofilm oscillations, and xenobotic morphology experiments (Levin et al. 2015–2023).
Bioelectric computation of morphological information
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Explores how bioelectric fields encode and store anatomical patterns beyond genetic code, pioneered by Michael Levin's xenobiology research.

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