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claim:morphogenetic-physiology-is-the-software-layer-between-genome-and-phenotypeMorphogenetic physiology is the 'software' layer between genome and phenotype
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- Levin-led research showing bioelectric signals encode and control anatomical goal states in living systems.
- Levin-influenced framework treating tissue-level morphogenesis as goal-directed, problem-solving intelligence via bioelectric signaling.
- 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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- 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.
- Reframes developmental biology as collective cognition.
- Testable prediction that insights from developmental bioelectricity can illuminate behavioral cognition and vice versa; grounds portability of neuroscience tools across tissue types.
- Authors' central interpretive assertion: genome specifies cell-level components but outcome is product of dynamics not easily predicted from genetic sequence.
- Proposes a biomedical strategy of controlling growth by exploiting the learning capacity of cellular collectives.
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- aboutblank_kbWhat computational properties of the biological software layer (morphogenetic physiology) have implications for the evolutionary process itself?questions/what-computational-properties-of-the-biological-software-layer.md0.851
- aboutblank_kbMorphogenetic Engineeringframeworks/morphogenetic-engineering.md0.833
- aboutblank_kbCybernetic Perspective On Morphogenesisframeworks/cybernetic-perspectives-on-morphogenesis.md0.815
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- aboutblank_kbMorphogenetic Hackingconcepts/biology/morphogenetic-hacking.md0.795
- aboutblank_kbCan morphogenetic setpoints be rewritten without rewiring the genome (in wild-type genomes)?questions/can-morphogenetic-setpoints-be-rewritten-without-rewiring-the.md0.793
- aboutblank_kbNeurobiological Isomorphismconcepts/interdisciplinary/neurobiological-isomorphism.md0.793
- aboutblank_kbHow and where is the morphogenetic homeostatic setpoint stored in biological systems?questions/how-and-where-is-the-morphogenetic-homeostatic-setpoint.md0.792