[PDF][PDF] Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language

C Fields, M Levin - Physics of Life Reviews, 2024 - chrisfieldsresearch.com
Manrique, Friston, and Walker [1] point out that it is not enough to invent a handaxe. It is also
not enough to invent a handaxe, notice its utility, and employ this new knowledge to update …

Circuit design in biology and machine learning. I. Random networks and dimensional reduction

SA Frank - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09604, 2024 - arxiv.org
A biological circuit is a neural or biochemical cascade, taking inputs and producing outputs.
How have biological circuits learned to solve environmental challenges over the history of …

[PDF][PDF] The multiscale wisdom of the body: collective intelligence as a tractable interface

M Levin - Physiological Reviews - osf.io
The dominant paradigm in biomedicine focuses on the genetically-specified components of
cells, and their biochemical dynamics. This perspective emphasizes bottom-up emergence …

Cancer memory as a mechanism to establish malignant phenotypes

T Lissek - 2024 - archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Cancers during oncogenic progression hold information in epigenetic memory which allows
flexible encoding of malignant phenotypes and more rapid reaction to the environment when …