Non-genetic programming of bacterial cells by leveraging the 'irreversibility' of gene states in response to transient perturbations - a phenomenon also underpinning learning and memory sciencedirect.com/science/articl… and mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/1… Michael Levin

Would this serve as a basal model or rather a null model of "signaling"?

Out-of-sync embodiment or hardware-software separation? nature.com/articles/nindi…

Cell "type" in reality is probabilistic, overlapping and messy, defying categorization with neat boundaries.

An effusive (not diffusive) electrostatic field can facilitate voltage patterning in bioelectric nets by employing mechanisms akin to Hermann Haken's "synergetics". A bulk face pattern was developed via field stimulation of just the boundary of the tissue! osf.io/preprints/osf/…

What if LLM is combined with imagery and the loop is closed? Would it then constitute ‘understanding’? Some of Richard Feynman’s thoughts here made me ask these questions: youtu.be/Si6NbKqYEd8?si…

pleased to share 'DiffLogic CA', made of the finest blend of NCA and binary-gate circuits! adopting Felix Petersen's differentiable circuit learning, we learn *stateful* circuits, recurrent in space & time. by Pietro Miotti, me, Alex Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo 1/5 google-research.github.io/self-organisin…

'Particle' based information integration was the norm in RNNs. And now we have wave-based approaches. What's next? Dual wave-particle?

Nature versus nurture at the cellular level: quantamagazine.org/how-metabolism….

We introduce EngramNCA, a Neural Cellular Automaton (NCA) framework designed to investigate memory storage beyond traditional synaptic models. Web preprint: etimush.github.io/EngramNCA/ Arxiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11855 #NeuroAI #ArtificialLife #NCA #ComplexSystems

PLOS Comput. Biol.: Complexity reduction by symmetry: Uncovering the minimal regulatory network for logical computation in bacteria journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Could the prefrontal cortex serve as RAM or a Turing tape for neural activity (though perhaps in a limited sense)? At the same time, potentially playing other compartmentalized roles of a traditional computer?

"Biological Processes as Exploratory Dynamics" (by Jane Kondev, Marc Kirschner, Hernan G. Garcia, Gabriel L. Salmon, Rob Phillips): arxiv.org/abs/2506.04104

Simplicity may be sufficient to generate complexity (e.g., cellular automata), but complexity may sometimes require underlying complexity (e.g., complex disease traits)

So far, there was only one way to define a prime number (textbook defn). Now there are infinite ways to do it. It's as if every (finite) prime number has an infinite set of dimensions, each casting its own unique shadow. How mind-boggling is that! scientificamerican.com/article/mathem…

A review of criticality in the brain, as characterized by its hallmark features, namely, scale invariance, marginal stability, tunability, and generative capacity, and its implications.