Why death and aging? All memories are imperfect

WB Miller Jr, F Baluška, AS Reber… - Progress in Biophysics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent papers have emphasized the primary role of cellular information management in
biological and evolutionary development. In this framework, intelligent cells collectively …

Situating physiology within evolutionary theory

N Gontier - The Journal of Physiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally defined as the science of the living, or as the field that beyond anatomical
structure and bodily form studies functional organization and behaviour, physiology has long …

Principles of cognitive biology and the concept of biocivilisations

P Slijepcevic - Biosystems, 2024 - Elsevier
A range of studies published in the last few decades promotes the cognitive aspects of life:
all organisms, from bacteria to mammals, are capable of sensing/perception, decision …

The CBC theory and its entailments: Why current models of the origin of consciousness fail

AS Reber, WB Miller Jr, P Slijepcevic, F Baluška - EMBO reports, 2024 - embopress.org
There are about 50 diverse theories behind consciousness and one of the two currently oft-
accepted theories, known as the integrated information theory (IIT), was recently declared by …

Is a Cognitive Revolution in Theoretical Biology Underway?

T Rama - Foundations of Science, 2024 - Springer
The foundations of biology have been a topic of debate for the past few decades. The
traditional perspective of the Modern Synthesis, which portrays organisms as passive …

[HTML][HTML] Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue

M Levin - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Many studies on memory emphasize the material substrate and mechanisms by which data
can be stored and reliably read out. Here, I focus on complementary aspects: the need for …

[HTML][HTML] The role of quantum mechanics in cognition-based evolution

P Marshall - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In 2021 I noted that in all information-based systems we understand, Cognition creates
Code, which controls Chemical reactions. Known agents write software which controls …

Biology in the 21st Century: Natural Selection is Cognitive Selection

WB Miller Jr, F Baluška, AS Reber… - Progress in Biophysics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural selection has a formal definition as the natural process that results in the survival
and reproductive success of individuals or groups best adjusted to their environment …

[PDF][PDF] Ancient and Alternative Healing Tools for Microbe Management

JM Dietert, R Dietert - Am. J. Biomed. Sci. Res, 2024 - researchgate.net
What is considered ancient and traditional medicine in many regions of the world has been
largely relegated to secondary status as complementary wellness tools in pharma …

The Embodied Microbiome

RR Dietert, JM Dietert - 2023 - preprints.org
Microbes are the most prevalent and widely-distributed life form on planet Earth. They are
also cognitive organisms with memory and superior problem-solving skills that use quantum …