Engineered in vitro disease models

KH Benam, S Dauth, B Hassell… - Annual Review of …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
The ultimate goal of most biomedical research is to gain greater insight into mechanisms of
human disease or to develop new and improved therapies or diagnostics. Although great …

Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms

WP Clawson, M Levin - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The rich variety of biological forms and behaviours results from one evolutionary history on
Earth, via frozen accidents and selection in specific environments. This ubiquitous baggage …

[HTML][HTML] Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish

L Smirnova, BS Caffo, DH Gracias, Q Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in human stem cell-derived brain organoids promise to replicate critical
molecular and cellular aspects of learning and memory and possibly aspects of cognition in …

Technological approach to mind everywhere: an experimentally-grounded framework for understanding diverse bodies and minds

M Levin - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

[HTML][HTML] Competency in navigating arbitrary spaces as an invariant for analyzing cognition in diverse embodiments

C Fields, M Levin - Entropy, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
One of the most salient features of life is its capacity to handle novelty and namely to thrive
and adapt to new circumstances and changes in both the environment and internal …

An overview of in vitro biological neural networks for robot intelligence

Z Chen, Q Liang, Z Wei, X Chen, Q Shi… - Cyborg and Bionic …, 2023‏ - spj.science.org
In vitro biological neural networks (BNNs) interconnected with robots, so-called BNN-based
neurorobotic systems, can interact with the external world, so that they can present some …

Natural-born cyborgs?

A Clark - International conference on cognitive technology, 2001‏ - Springer
Cognitive technologies, ancient and modern, are best understood (I suggest) as deep and
integral parts of the problem-solving systems we identify as human intelligence. They are …

An extremely rich repertoire of bursting patterns during the development of cortical cultures

DA Wagenaar, J Pine, SM Potter - BMC neuroscience, 2006‏ - Springer
Background We have collected a comprehensive set of multi-unit data on dissociated
cortical cultures. Previous studies of the development of the electrical activity of dissociated …

[ספר][B] Bio-inspired artificial intelligence: theories, methods, and technologies

D Floreano, C Mattiussi - 2008‏ - books.google.com
A comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that
are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures. New approaches to …

First Organoid Intelligence (OI) workshop to form an OI community

IE Morales Pantoja, L Smirnova, AR Muotri… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The brain is arguably the most powerful computation system known. It is extremely efficient
in processing large amounts of information and can discern signals from noise, adapt, and …