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Brain-to-text communication via handwriting achieved 90 characters per minute in a paralyzed person.

From Willett et al. (2021), shows high-performance artificial chimaera.

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Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms

(2023) · Clawson, Wesley P. · Levin, Michael

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Francis R. Willett
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Conduced high-performance brain-to-text communication via handwriting.

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The life vs. machine distinction is relevant only to the lowest class of machines available in prior decades and is not fundamental.
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Claim that the organism–machine dichotomy is outdated.

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Design principles for care-centered systems
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Cross-scale frameworks linking spatial patterns, diagrams, and simplicity as expressions of care in design.
Living systems as 21st-century machines
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Reconceptualizes life and biological complexity through modern computational principles—substrate-dependence, multiscale integration, irreducibility—rather than mechanical reductionism, bridging xenobiology and machine learning circa 2020s.
Neural handwriting BCI decoding
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Motor cortex signals decoded to text in paralyzed patients, ~90 chars/min, Shenoy lab 2021

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