Some #photography.

Whoa: eco.emergentpublications.com/McCulloch#:~:t… "Collected Works of Warren S. McCulloch" !!

Here's the first of a series of preprints that will be posted over the next few weeks: "The multiscale wisdom of the body: collective intelligence as a tractable interface for next-generation biomedicine" osf.io/preprints/osf/… This one is very long and "from the beginning", so

New short piece on SUTI; no, not SETI - SUTI, the Search for Unconventional Terrestrial Intelligence, and thought patterns vs. thinkers - in the eye of the beholder. iai.tv/articles/patte… (graphic made for me by Jeremy Guay of Peregrine Creative). Thanks Perry Marshall for

Conversation between Josh Bongard, Tom Froese, and I on Irruption Theory... youtu.be/9aTqeCzdT_c?fe… via YouTube

Intellectual Cage Match: Perry vs. Mad Scientist Michael Levin Part 2 iai.tv/articles/patte…

The final paper is out: simple algorithms and their unexpected capabilities and side-quests: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… Blog post discussing it: thoughtforms.life/algorithms-red… , including a couple of videos of discussion of the topic with Mark Solms and Karl Friston. Also some links

Super fun conversation with Sean about life, evolution, and everything :)

Cool new paper from Min Zhao and colleagues on #bioelectricity: nature.com/articles/s4156… "Gut epithelial electrical cues drive differential localization of enterobacteria"

What are the implications, for evolution, of the 3 different ways by which #bioelectric prepatterns are interpreted by tissues? Here's a new preprint describing our latest computational analysis and some planarian experiments with SSRIs: preprints.org/manuscript/202… "The Role of

New paper: Chris L Buckley, Tim Lewens at Cambridge HPS, Beren Millidge, Alec Tschantz, Richard Watson mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/9… "Natural Induction: Spontaneous Adaptive Organisation without Natural Selection" #evolution, #basalcognition, #physics Abstract: Evolution by

Can algae be surprised? Apparently, yes; and they don't like it. New preprint is up, from Franz Kuchling's PhD work, with a great team of students: Isha Singh, Mridushi Daga, Susan Zec, and Alexandra Kunen: osf.io/preprints/osf/… "Uncertainty Minimization and Pattern

a specific frame from a series of quick action shots: (surprisingly, there was no collision - the flying bird went around the other one's neck)