Xenobots and other liberated cellular collectives reveal hidden morphogenetic capabilities normally suppressed by instructive signaling of other cells.

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• Xenobots perform kinematic self-replication by herding loose cells into new Xenobots.finding0.819
  From Kriegman et al. (2021), a novel mode of reproduction never before seen.
• Suppression of cancer phenotypes despite strong oncogenic mutations via forced bioelectrical connections among cells, overriding single-cell goals with morphogenetic ones.finding0.819
  Empirical demonstration that bioelectric network topology, not genetic state, determines whether cellular optimization occurs at single-cell (cancer) vs. organ level.
• Xenobots’ behavior reveals baseline geodesics through option space that are normally masked by larger collectives.hypothesis0.818
  Hypothesis about the origin of novel goals in synthetic organisms.
• Xenobots’ anatomical and behavioral goals are emergent, rather than directly selected over aeons.claim0.811
  Argues that goal states arise without direct evolutionary sculpting.
• Cancer phenotypes can be suppressed by forcing bioelectrical connections among cells, overriding oncogenic mutations (Chernet & Levin 2013).finding0.803
  Shows that restoring bioelectric cohesion can override single-cell goals.
• Can Xenobots And Other Synthetic Organisms Reveal Principlesquestion0.800
• Evolutionary algorithm-designed Xenopus cell clusters exhibit fast self-motile behavior purely from evolved novel shape and tissue distribution, not neural control or genomic information.finding0.792
  Empirical result from Kriegman et al. 2020 demonstrating that 'reprogramming' occurs without altering DNA software
• The remarkable ability of neurons to unify toward a centralized self is an evolutionary pivot of far earlier cell communication strategies that first solved problems in navigating anatomical morphospace.hypothesis0.786
  Proposes an evolutionary trajectory linking morphogenesis to neural cognition.