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 …

[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 …

Evolutionary Implications of Self-Assembling Cybernetic Materials with Collective Problem-Solving Intelligence at Multiple Scales

B Hartl, S Risi, M Levin - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the scientific community has increasingly recognized the complex multiscale
competency architecture (MCA) of biology, comprising nested layers of active homeostatic …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary Implications of Multi-Scale Intelligence

B Hartl, S Risi, M Levin - Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2024–ASHPC24 - files.osf.io
In recent years, the scientific community has increasingly recognized the complex multi-
scale competency architecture (MCA) of biology, comprising nested layers of active …